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Authorised form of nameBesicovitch; Abram Samoilovitch (1891 - 1970)
Dates1891 - 1970
NationalityRussian
Place of birthBerdyansk, Russia
Date of birth24 January 1891
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death02/11/1970
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityCareer:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Cayley Lecturer in Mathematics in the University of Cambridge
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/05/1934
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Sylvester Medal 1952
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1971 vol 17 pp 1-16, plate, by J C Burkill
CodeNA2189
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1934/01Besicovitch, Abram Samoilovitch: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/38/105Referee's report by Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, on a paper 'On the law of the large numbers' by E H LinfootApril 1928
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