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This article is quite oddly designated, because Sydney Chapman was primarily a mathematician, and then there were other secondary fields of study that he moved into later on in his career. His work in mathematical random processes was so important that the pivotal equations in the field, the
Chapman-Kolmogorov equations are named for him and for the Russian mathematician
Andrey Kolmogorov, who worked them out independently.
Also, there was no mention that one of his secondary fields of study was in atmospheric physics, and not in geophysics, which most people think of to include things like the study of earthquakes, volcanos, plate tectonics, and other things that happen underground.
During the time of Chapman, there was one and only one University of Alaska, and it was the one located in and around Fairbanks.
University of Alaska is all you need to say. The additional campuses in Anchorage, Juneau, Valdez, etc., etc., are newer creations, and Chapman died in 1970.
So many people have such a hard time understanding that at one time (for example), the Univ. of California had one campus - the one in Berkeley, and then a Southern division was established in Los Angeles. About 70 years ago, and earlier, the "Univ. of California" meant the one in Berkeley, and then nobody said the "Univ. of California at Berkeley". The third campus came into being when a state college in Santa Barbara was "promoted" to the status of the "Univ. of California at Santa Barbara".
Then sometime the "Univ. of California at San Francisco" was separated, administratively, from the one in Berkeley, but the one in San Francisco is almost exclusively a graduate school in the healt arts and sciences.
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Hi 98.81.11.27. You are changing the grammar in this article from British English to US English. Basically articles should be kept in their original English variant and made consistent in that variant, otherwise edit wars tend to break out. There is a wiki guideline on this which explains things, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English. Cheers Aarghdvaark ( talk) 20:24, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
I've also reordered this page as earlier posts should come first. Aarghdvaark ( talk) 20:29, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
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in whole article no any reference to main result of Chapman's life. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.24.239.232 ( talk) 15:47, May 12, 2019 (UTC)
His greatest achievement is obvious and boldly mentioned: The " Chapman-Kolmogorov Equation" in stochastic processes. 75.167.103.151 ( talk) 04:40, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
How could one mention Chapman's primary institutions w/o including the University of Colorado? Also then, there is the secondary one of the University of Alaska, where Chapman studied the aurora borealis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.167.103.151 ( talk) 04:45, 6 April 2020 (UTC)