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Authorised form of nameNorthcott; Douglas Geoffrey (1916 - 2005); mathematician
Dates1916 - 2005
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKensington, London, England
Date of birth31/12/1916
Place of deathSheffield
Date of death08/04/2005
OccupationMathematician
Research fieldCommutative algebra
ActivityEducation:
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
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1961
Age at election44
RSActivityCommittee and panels:
Royal Society representative on the Council of Almoners of Christ's Hospital (appointed 1976)
RelationshipsMarried (1949) Rose Austin (died 1992)
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs 2007, Volume 53, pp 247-264 by D Rees FRS and R Y Sharp
Obituary in The Independent (2 May 2005)
CodeNA4007
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1961/19Northcott, Douglas Geoffrey: certificate of election to the Royal Society16 March 1961
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