Arthur Cayley

During the fifty or more years that Galton devoted himself to arguing his silly conclusions about the innate origins of eminence, Friedrich Mieschler discovered DNA, Charles Darwin (Galton's cousin, no less) proposed evolution by natural selection, John Newlands proposed the first periodic table of chemical elements, Arthur Cayley developed matrix algebra, Robert Koch isolated the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis, and James Clerk Maxwell proposed a mathematical theory of light as electromagnetic radiation.

Dan Agin: Black and White in America II: The Phantom of Group Differences 2009

William Oldys in 1736, Thomas Birch in 1751, Arthur Cayley in 1805, Sir

Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography 1879

[473] Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

Cauchy wrote 789 papers, a quantity exceeded only by Euler and Arthur Cayley.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2010

Euclid and his Modern Rivals, speculates on what the consequences might have been if English mathematicians Arthur Cayley and William Kingdon Clifford, who understood these new ideas, had met Dodgson and explained them to him.

American Scientist Online 2009

Arthur Cayley (sing: "He is an Englishman!") invented matrices.

Scientific Blogging 2009