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**George Chrystal**
George Chrystal
	; George Chrystal (1851-1911)
Born	March 8, 1851; Old Meldrum, Scotland, UK
Died	November 3, 1911 (aged 60); Edinburgh, Scotland, UK;
Residence	Scotland, UK
Nationality	Scottish, UK
Fields	Physicist and mathematician
Institutions	University of St Andrews; University of Cambridge; University of Edinburgh
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen; University of Cambridge
Academic advisors	James Clerk Maxwell
Notable students	Joseph Wedderburn
Known for	Experimental verification of Ohm's law
Notable awards	Royal Medal

This article is about the Scottish mathematician. For his son, Sir George Chrystal, see George Chrystal (civil servant).

George Chrystal (1851–1911) was a Scottish mathematician.

He was born in Old Meldrum and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen, moving in 1872 to study under James Clerk Maxwell at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated Second wrangler in 1875, joint with William Burnside, and was elected a fellow of Corpus Christi.^[1] He was appointed to the Regius Chair of Mathematics at University of St. Andrews in 1877, and then in 1879 to the Chair in Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. In 1911, he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.

He was a contributor to the drafting of the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889 and one of the founders of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.

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