James Gray

James Gordon Gray (1876 – 6 November 1934) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist.

Life

Grey was born in Glasgow in 1876, the third of eight children of Annie Gordon and Andrew Gray. He was educated at Friars Grammar School, in Bangor, Caernarvonshire, Wales, where his father was employed by the university. He attended the University College of North Wales until 1899, when his father and family moved back to Glasgow.

He studied engineering at the University of Glasgow, graduating with a BScEng. From 1904, he was employed at a physics lecturer at the university, and received a doctorate (DSc) in 1908. During World War I he assisted with naval and aerial defence.

Publications

Dynamics (1911) co-written with his father