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Authorised form of nameWhitehead; John Henry Constantine (1904 - 1960)
Dates1904 - 1960
Place of birthMadras, India
Date of birth11/11/1904
Place of deathPrinceton, New Jersey, USA
Date of death08/05/1960
Research fieldMathematics
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1944
Age at election39
SourceSources:
DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1961 vol 7 pp 349-363, plate, by M H A Newman
References:
Brebis Bleaney, 'The Physical Sciences in Oxford, 1918-1939 and Earlier' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 247-261
CodeNA1833
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/GA/WS/1894Whithead, John Henry Constatine
IM/GA/WS/1894/BWhithead, John Henry Constantine1946 ?
IM/GA/WS/1894/AWhithead, John Henry Constantine1946
RR/69/128Referee's report by John Henry Constantine Whitehead, on a paper 'On integrally dependent integral domains' by P M Grundy1946
RR/69/3Referee's report by John Henry Constantine Whitehead, on a paper 'On the dimension of normal spaces' by P Alexandroff1946
RR/72/78Referee's report by John Henry Constantine Whitehead, on a paper 'World-structure and non-Euclidean honeycombs' by Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter and G J Whitrow1949
EC/1944/20Whitehead, John Henry Constantine: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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