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Authorised form of nameFields; John Charles (1863 - 1932)
Dates1863 - 1932
Place of birthHamilton, Ontario, Canada
Date of birth14 May 1863
Place of deathToronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of death09/08/1932
Research fieldMathematics
Education
ActivityEducation:
PhD (Johns Hopkins Univ)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/05/1913
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 131-138, plate, by J L Synge
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
CodeNA3582
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/001413Fields, John Charlesnd
NLB/48/293Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [John Charles] Fields, Fellow of the Royal Society12 June 1913
RR/19/49Referee's report by Edwin Bailey Elliott, on a paper 'On the foundations of the theory of algebraic functions of one variable' by John Charles Fields[July 1912]
EC/1913/06Fields, John Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/19/48Referee's report by Henry Frederick Baker, on a paper 'On the foundations of the theory of algebraic functions of one variable' by John Charles Fields[July 1912]
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