George Neville Watson FRS FRSE (31 January 1886 – 2 February 1965) was an English mathematician, who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions.
In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals.
in Devon the son of George Wentworth Watson, a schoolmaster and genealogist, and his wife, Mary Justina Griffith.
He became Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Birmingham in 1918, replacing Prof R S Heath, and remained in this role until 1951.
Watson wrote over 30 papers inspired by the notebooks before his interest evidently waned in the late 1930s.
Much of Berndt's book Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part 3 (1998) is based upon the prior work of Watson.