George Frederick James Temple
George Frederick James Temple | |
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Born | 2 September 1901 |
Died | 30 January 1992 Isle of Wight | (aged 90)
Alma mater | Birkbeck College, London B.Sc (1922) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | |
Doctoral students | Susan Brown,[1] Alan B. Tayler |
Dom George Frederick James Temple FRS[2] OSB (born 2 September 1901, London; died 30 January 1992, Isle of Wight) was an English mathematician, recipient of the Sylvester Medal in 1969. He was President of the London Mathematical Society in the years 1951–1953.[3]
Temple took his first degree as an evening student at Birkbeck College, London, between 1918 and 1922, and also worked there as a research assistant. In 1924 he moved to Imperial College as a demonstrator, where he worked under the direction of Sydney Chapman. After a period spent with Eddington at Cambridge, he returned to Imperial as reader in mathematics. He was appointed professor of mathematics at King's College London in 1932, where he returned after war service with the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. In 1953 he was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a chair which he held until 1968, and in which he succeeded Chapman. He was also an honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
After the death of his wife in 1980, Temple, a devout Christian, took monastic vows in the Benedictine order and entered Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight, where he remained until his death.
Bibliography
- George Temple (1981) 100 Years of Mathematics: a personal viewpoint, Springer-Verlag ISBN 0-387-91192-8.
References
- ^ "Professor Susan Brown". University College London. 2 January 2018.
- ^ Kilmister, C. W. (1994). "George Frederick James Temple. 2 September 1901-30 January 1992". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 40: 384–400. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0046.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "George Frederick James Temple", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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