Person Coxeter; Harold Scott MacDonald (1907 - 2003) Coxeter Harold Scott MacDonald Donald 1907 - 2003 British Male Kensington, London, England 09/02/1907 19070209 Toronto, Ontario 31/03/2003 20030331

Geometry Education: King Alfred School, Hampstead; St George's School, Harpenden; private maths tutor; Trinity College, Cambridge selected to attend Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics lectures (1926); PhD, University of Cambridge (1931) Career: Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (1931-1936) including two years as Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and then J E Procter Fellow, Princeton University; Assistant Professor, Faculty of the Department of Mathematics, Toronto University (1936-1943), Associate Professor (1943-1948), Professor (1948-1980); editor, Canadian Journal of Mathematics (1948-1957); visiting professor at universities in Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Australia and the United States; addressed the conference in honour of Janos Bolyai on Hyperbolic Geometry in Budapest (July 2002); honorary doctorates from universities in Canada and Germany; CRM/Fields Institute Prize (1995); Distinguished Service Award of the Canadian Mathematical Society (1997); Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (2001) Honours: Companion of the Order of Canada (CC) 1997; FRSCanada (1948); President, Canadian Mathematical Society (1962-1963); Vice-President American Mathematical Society (1968); president of the International Congress of Mathematics in Vancouver (1974); Foreign Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences Married (1936) Hendrina Brouwer (d 1999) Medals and prizes: Sylvester Medal 1997 Fellow 16/03/1950 43 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 45-66, plate, by Siobhan Roberts and Asia Ivic Weiss The Guardian (25 April 2003); The Independent (03 April 2003; 15 April 2003); The Times (14 April 2003) 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 9 Feb 1907 - NA4835 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 48cbd6c9-7939-41b5-9c17-2ed9536b92d9