Prof David Spearman has been elected president of the Royal Irish Academy. The mathematician and theoretical physicist held the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin from 1966 to 1997.
He succeeds Prof Michael Herity at the RIA.
Mathematician is RIA president
Prof David Spearman has been elected president of the Royal Irish Academy
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