William Whewell - Honors and Recognitions

Honors and Recognitions

  • The crater Whewell on the Moon
  • The Gothic buildings known as Whewell's Court in Trinity College, Cambridge
  • The mineral whewellite
  • The debating society at Lancaster Royal Grammar School is named the Whewell Society in honour of Whewell being an Old Lancastrian.

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