William Mitchinson Hicks, FRS[1] (23 September 1850, in Launceston, Cornwall – 17 August 1934, in Crowhurst, Sussex) was a British mathematician and physicist.
[2][3] Hicks spent most of his career at Sheffield, contributing to the development of the university there.
Hicks was the first vice chancellor of the university, serving from 1905.
"[1] In 1921, Hicks won the Adams Prize.
[4] The Hicks Building at the University of Sheffield, which houses the departments of Physics and Astronomy, the Chemistry and Physics Workshop (formally known as the Central Mechanical Workshops) and the School of Mathematics and Statistics, is named in his honour.