Person Northcott; Douglas Geoffrey (1916 - 2005); mathematician Northcott Douglas Geoffrey mathematician 1916 - 2005 British Male Kensington, London, England 31/12/1916 19161231 Sheffield 08/04/2005 20050408

Mathematician Commutative algebra Education: 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 Married (1949) Rose Austin (died 1992) Committee and panels: Royal Society representative on the Council of Almoners of Christ's Hospital (appointed 1976) Fellow 16/03/1961 44 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs 2007, Volume 53, pp 247-264 by D Rees FRS and R Y Sharp Obituary in The Independent (2 May 2005) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 31 Dec 1916 - NA4007 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 8408f677-22b7-4ac1-b017-ecb27208fb2a