| Authorised form of name | Pitt; Sir; Harry Raymond (1914 - 2005) |
| Dates | 1914 - 2005 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 03/06/1914 |
| Date of death | 08/10/2005 |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Probability theory |
| Activity | Education:
King Edward IV School, Stourbridge, West Midlands; Peterhouse College, Cambridge
Career:
Cambridge University, PhD (1938) for research on Tauberian Theorems; Lecturer in Mathematics, Aberdeen University (1939-1942); Worked in Operational Research with RAF Coastal Command (1942-1945); Professor of Mathematics, Queen's University, Belfast (1945-1950); Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Nottingham (1950-1964); Visiting Professor, Yale University (1962-1963); Vice-Chancellor, Reading University (1964-1979); Chairman, Universities Central Council on Admissions (1975-1978); President, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (1984-1985)
Honours:
Kt 1978
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1957 |
| Age at election | 42 |
| PublishedWorks | 'Tauberian Theorems' (1957); 'Measure, Integration and Probability' (1963); 'Measure and Integration for Use' (1986) |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biogrphical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 54, 2008, pp 257-274
Obituary, 'The Times', 19 October 2005 |
| Code | NA4075 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1957/15 | Pitt, Sir Harry Raymond: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| WF/641 | Grant application from The University of Reading to the Wolfson Foundation | 1974-1980 |
| IM/GA/Russell/5222 | Pitt, Sir Harry Raymond | nd |
| PB/4/13/1 | Preliminary correspondence and papers re setting up of Committee, invitation to Blackett to serve as Chairman, membership of Committee, etc. up to 1st meeting (28 January 1947). | 1946-1947 |