John Bryce McLeod

John Bryce McLeod, FRS[1] (23 December 1929 in Aberdeen – 20 August 2014[2]) was a British mathematician, who worked on linear and nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations.

Education

He obtained his PhD in 1959 under the supervision of Edward Charles Titchmarsh at the University of Oxford.[3]

Awards and honours

In 1965, he was awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992.[1]

In 2011, he was awarded the Naylor Prize and Lectureship.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Hastings, Stuart (2016). "John Bryce McLeod. 23 December 1929 — 20 August 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0031.
  2. ↑ "DServe Archive Persons Show". The Royal Society.
  3. ↑ "John McLeod". Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. ↑ "List of LMS prize winners". London Mathematical Society.


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