| Authorised form of name | Northcott; Douglas Geoffrey (1916 - 2005); mathematician |
| Dates | 1916 - 2005 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Kensington, London, England |
| Date of birth | 31/12/1916 |
| Place of death | Sheffield |
| Date of death | 08/04/2005 |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Research field | Commutative algebra |
| Activity | Education:
Nominated to a 'presentation vacancy' to Christ's Hospital (1927); Bayliss Scholarship in Mathematics, St John's College, Cambridge, Wrangler (1937), Distinction in Part III of Mathematical Tripos (1938); supervised pre-war as a research student by G H Hardy, Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics, Cambridge, supervised post-war by Frank Smithies
Career:
Military service in Far East during WW2, Prisoner of war from Fall of Singapore until liberation on 1945; Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Princeton University (1946-1948); Research Fellows, St John's College, Cambridge (1948-1952); Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, Cambridge University (1949-1951), Lecturer (1951-1952); Town Trust Professor of Pure Mathematics, Sheffield University (1952-1982); awarded London Mathematical Society's Junior Berwick Prize in 1953
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1961 |
| Age at election | 44 |
| RSActivity | Committee and panels:
Royal Society representative on the Council of Almoners of Christ's Hospital (appointed 1976) |
| Relationships | Married (1949) Rose Austin (died 1992) |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs 2007, Volume 53, pp 247-264 by D Rees FRS and R Y Sharp
Obituary in The Independent (2 May 2005) |
| Code | NA4007 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1961/19 | Northcott, Douglas Geoffrey: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 16 March 1961 |