| Authorised form of name | Rado; Richard (1906 - 1989) |
| Dates | 1906 - 1989 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Berlin, Germany |
| Date of birth | 28/04/1906 |
| Date of death | 23/12/1989 |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
Berlin University; Gottingen University; Fitzwilliam House (later College), Cambridge. DPhil (1933, Berlin); PhD (1935, Cambridge)
Career:
Left Germany for England when Hitler came to power; temporary Lecturer, Cambridge University (1936); Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer in Mathematics, Sheffield University (1936-1947); Reader in Mathematics, King's College, London (1947-1954); Professor of Pure Mathematics, Reading University (1954-1971); retired (1971); Visiting Professor, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1971-1972)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1978 |
| Age at election | 71 |
| Relationships | Jewish; married (1933) Luise Zadek |
| Source | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 50/6/94. Papers deposited in Reading University Library
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1991 vol 37 pp 411-426, plate, by C A Rogers |
| Code | NA1366 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1978/28 | Rado, Richard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1976 |
| IM/GA/RGRS/8082 | Rado, Richard | 1978 |
| RR/56/84 | Second referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Linear transformations of sequences' by Richard Rado | 4 December 1935 |
| RR/56/83 | Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Linear transformations of sequences' by Richard Rado | 29 August 1935 |