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{{Infobox scientist&lt;br /&gt;
| name = William Rowan Hamilton&lt;br /&gt;
| image = William_Rowan_Hamilton_portrait_oval_combined.png&lt;br /&gt;
| caption = William Rowan Hamilton&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_date = 4 August 1805&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland&lt;br /&gt;
| death_date = 2 September 1865&lt;br /&gt;
| death_place = Dublin, Ireland&lt;br /&gt;
| fields = Mathematics; mathematical physics; mechanics&lt;br /&gt;
| work_institutions = Dunsink Observatory; Trinity College Dublin&lt;br /&gt;
| alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin&lt;br /&gt;
| known_for = Hamiltonian mechanics; Hamilton-Jacobi equation; quaternions&lt;br /&gt;
| awards = Royal Medal (1835)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Sir William Rowan Hamilton&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (4 August 1805 - 2 September 1865) was an Irish mathematician and mathematical physicist whose reformulation of classical mechanics became essential to later quantum theory.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Quantum context ==&lt;br /&gt;
Hamiltonian mechanics describes dynamics through an energy function and canonical variables. In quantum mechanics the Hamiltonian becomes the operator that generates time evolution and determines stationary-state energies.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hamilton&amp;#039;s work therefore provides part of the mathematical bridge from classical mechanics to [[Physics:Quantum Hamiltonian]], wave mechanics, and operator-based formulations of quantum theory.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Linked Quantum Collection pages ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Physics:Quantum Hamiltonian]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Physics:Quantum Matter wave]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Physics:Quantum mechanics]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Physics:Quantum Time evolution]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{reflist|3}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Cite book |last=Hamilton |first=William Rowan |title=The Mathematical Papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1931}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Cite web |title=William Rowan Hamilton |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hamilton/ |publisher=MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive |access-date=2026-05-23}}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{Author|Harold Foppele}}&lt;br /&gt;
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