| Authorised form of name | Hodge; Sir; William Vallance Douglas (1903 - 1975) |
| Dates | 1903 - 1975 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 17/06/1903 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 07/07/1975 |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Career:
Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry in the University of Cambridge
Honours:
Kt 1959
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1938 |
| Age at election | 34 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Sec 1957-1965; VP 1958-1965
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1957; Copley Medal 1974 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB vol 17 pp 425-430
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1976 vol 22 pp 169-192, plate, by M F Atiyah |
| Code | NA2197 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1938/08 | Hodge, Sir William Vallance Douglas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PB/1/33/3/3 | Companion of Honour | 1965 |
| IM/002149 | Hodge, Sir William Vallance Douglas | nd |
| IM/002148 | Hodge, Sir William Vallance Douglas | nd |
| IM/GA/WS/1196 | Hodge, Sir William Vallance Douglas | nd |
| IM/GA/AR/7286 | Hodge, Sir William Vallance Douglas | nd |
| IM/002147 | Hodge, Sir William Vallance Douglas | nd |
| RR/70/210 | Referee's report by William Vallance Douglas Hodge, on a paper 'Matrices of integers associated with self-transformations of surfaces' by Thomas Gerald Room | 1947 |
| PB/9/1/101/2 | Royal Society correspondence | 1945 |
| IM/002150 | Hodge, Sir William Vallance Douglas | nd |
| RR/73/258 | Referee's report by William Vallance Douglas Hodge, on a paper 'On non-commutative algebra and the foundations of projective geometry' by Henry Frederick Baker | 28 October 1950 |
| RR/79/160 | Letter from William Vallance Douglas Hodge, on a paper 'Uniform polyhedra' by Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins and J C P Miller | 12 July 1953 |
| RR/79/252 | Referee's report by William Vallance Douglas Hodge, on a paper 'Geometry in three dimensions over GF(3)' by W L Edge | 5 October 1953 |
| RR/73/284 | Referee's report by William Vallance Douglas Hodge, on a paper 'On the cardinal points in plane kinematics' by S C Steward | 25 November 1950 |