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Died | 20 August 2014 | (aged 84)
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Fields | Differential equations |
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Thesis | Some Problems in the Theory of Eigenfunction Expansions (1959) |
Doctoral students | Gillian Slater |
John Bryce McLeod, FRS FRSE [1] (23 December 1929 – 20 August 2014 [2]) was a British mathematician, who worked on linear and nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations.
McLeod was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 23 December 1929. [2] He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School; the University of Aberdeen, where he took a first in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1950; and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a first in Mathematics in 1952. He was a Harmsworth Senior Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, from 1955 to 1956. [3] He obtained his PhD in 1959 under the supervision of Edward Charles Titchmarsh at the University of Oxford. [4]
He was a junior lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Oxford from 1956 to 1958, and a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Edinburgh from 1958 to 1960. He then returned to Oxford to take up a Fellowship in Pure Mathematics at Wadham College. [3] He remained in Oxford until 1988, becoming a university lecturer in 1970, and a senior research fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Council from 1986 to 1991. [5] In 1988 McLeod took up a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained until his retirement in 2007. [6]
McLeod married Eunice Third in 1956; they had three sons and a daughter. [5] He died in England on 20 August 2014, aged 84. [6]
In 1965, he was awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize. he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1974, and received the Society's Keith Medal in 1987. [5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992. [1]
In 2011 he was awarded the Naylor Prize and Lectureship. [7]
John Bryce McLeod | |
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![]() | |
Born | |
Died | 20 August 2014 | (aged 84)
Education | |
Awards | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Differential equations |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Some Problems in the Theory of Eigenfunction Expansions (1959) |
Doctoral students | Gillian Slater |
John Bryce McLeod, FRS FRSE [1] (23 December 1929 – 20 August 2014 [2]) was a British mathematician, who worked on linear and nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations.
McLeod was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 23 December 1929. [2] He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School; the University of Aberdeen, where he took a first in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1950; and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a first in Mathematics in 1952. He was a Harmsworth Senior Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, from 1955 to 1956. [3] He obtained his PhD in 1959 under the supervision of Edward Charles Titchmarsh at the University of Oxford. [4]
He was a junior lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Oxford from 1956 to 1958, and a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Edinburgh from 1958 to 1960. He then returned to Oxford to take up a Fellowship in Pure Mathematics at Wadham College. [3] He remained in Oxford until 1988, becoming a university lecturer in 1970, and a senior research fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Council from 1986 to 1991. [5] In 1988 McLeod took up a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained until his retirement in 2007. [6]
McLeod married Eunice Third in 1956; they had three sons and a daughter. [5] He died in England on 20 August 2014, aged 84. [6]
In 1965, he was awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize. he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1974, and received the Society's Keith Medal in 1987. [5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992. [1]
In 2011 he was awarded the Naylor Prize and Lectureship. [7]