| Authorised form of name | Besicovitch; Abram Samoilovitch (1891 - 1970) |
| Dates | 1891 - 1970 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Place of birth | Berdyansk, Russia |
| Date of birth | 24 January 1891 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 02/11/1970 |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Cayley Lecturer in Mathematics in the University of Cambridge
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/05/1934 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Sylvester Medal 1952 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1971 vol 17 pp 1-16, plate, by J C Burkill |
| Code | NA2189 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1934/01 | Besicovitch, Abram Samoilovitch: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/38/105 | Referee's report by Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, on a paper 'On the law of the large numbers' by E H Linfoot | April 1928 |
| RR/77/95 | Referee's report by Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
, on a paper 'The approximation of logarithms of algebraic numbers' by Kurt Mahler | 16 July 1952 |