| Authorised form of name | Newman; Maxwell Herman Alexander (1897 - 1984) |
| Dates | 1897 - 1984 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 07 February 1897 |
| Date of death | 22/02/1984 |
| Activity | Education:
City of London School (1908-1915)
Career:
Involved in developing the first electronic computer, to decode ciphers, Bletchley Park (World War 2); Lecturer in Mathematics; Fielden Professor of Mathematics, Manchester University
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1939 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Sylvester Medal 1958 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1985 vol 31 pp 435-452, plate, by J F Adams |
| Code | NA6355 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1939/14 | Newman, Maxwell Herman Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WRS/8572 | Newman, Maxwell Herman Alexander | nd |
| RR/73/47 | Referee's report by Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, on a paper 'Homotopy invariants and continuous mappings' by Su-Cheng Chang | 14 March 1950 |