Edward Arthur Milne

Edward Arthur Milne was a British astrophysicist and mathematician, born in Hull, Yorkshire, in 1896. He won an open scholarship in mathematics and natural science to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1914, and in 1916 joined a group of mathematicians led by A. V. Hill that worked on the ballistics of anti-aircraft gunnery. He was Beyer professor of applied mathematics at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1924 to 1928 and from 1928 Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford. His earlier work was in mathematical astrophysics, much of his research in the 1930s concerned the theory of relativity and cosmology, and his later work on the interior structure of stars aroused controversy. He was President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1943 to 1945.