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Authorised form of nameFrohlich; Albrecht (1916 - 2001)
Dates1916 - 2001
NationalityBritish
Place of birthMunich
Date of birth22/05/1916
Date of death08/11/2001
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityEducation:
Bristol University
Career:
Electrician in a railway workshop, Palestine (during World War 2); lecturer, Leicester and Keele; Reader (1955), then Professor (1962), King's College, London; Head, Department of Mathematics (1969-1981); retired (1981); Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College, London; Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge
Memberships:
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Corresponding)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1976
Age at election59
RelationshipsOf a Jewish family; younger brother of Herbert Frohlich (FRS 1951); married (1950) Evelyn Ruth Brooks; one son, one daughter
SourceSources:
Times (obituary) 30 November 2001
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 149-168, plate, by Bryan J Birch FRS and Martin J Taylor FRS
CodeNA8330
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1976/15Frohlich, Albrecht: certificate of election to the Royal Society1974
IM/GA/RGRS/7949Fröhlich, Albrecht1977
IM/001566Frohlich, Albrechtnd
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