Alexander Durie Russell

Alexander Durie Russell FRSE FRAS (1872–1955) was a 20th century Scottish mathematician, schoolmaster and amateur astronomer. He was President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1915/16.

Life

He was born in Edinburgh on 22 July 1872, the son of Thomas Russell, a grocer and spirit dealer, and his wife Janet Durie.[1] The family lived at 19 Graham Street and had a shop at 42 West Richmond Street in the city's South Side.[2] Alexander was educated at George Heriot's School then studied Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (Physics) at Edinburgh University graduating BSc in 1896, being awarded a Neil Arnott Scholarship in Experimental Physics during this period. In the university he was taught Chemistry by Alexander Crum Brown, mathematics by George Chrystal and Physics by Peter Guthrie Tait.[3]

Upon graduating he became a Demonstrator in Physics at the University. He then began teaching: firstly at Morelands School in Edinburgh then in the summer of 1897 went to Stranraer High School.[4]

In 1899 he joined Falkirk High School where he stayed for the rest of his career.[5]

In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Peddie, John Brown Clark, Robert Traill Omond, and Cargill Gilston Knott.[6]

He retired in 1937 and died on 20 January 1955.[7]

Family

He was married.

References

  1. ↑ http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/history//Biographies/Russell_A_D.html
  2. ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1872
  3. ↑ http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/history//Biographies/Russell_A_D.html
  4. ↑ https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0950184300000355
  5. ↑ http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Russell_A_D.html
  6. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  7. ↑ https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0950184300000355
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