Biography

Sidney Samuel Hough, English mathematician and astronomer in South Africa (Stoke Nevington 11 June 1870 – Chingford 08 July 1923)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Authority on celestial mechanics

First to derivate Taylor-Proudman theorem (1897)

Created Hough functions (1898)  

See http://assa.saao.ac.za/html/his-astr-hough_ss.html