John Bryce McLeod

John Bryce McLeod
Born(1929-12-23)December 23, 1929
Aberdeen
DiedAugust 20, 2014(2014-08-20) (aged 84)
Education
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsDifferential equations
Institutions
ThesisSome Problems in the Theory of Eigenfunction Expansions (1959)
Doctoral studentsGillian Slater

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

Life and education

McLeod was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 23 December 1929.[2] He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School; the University of Aberdeen, where he took a first in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1950; and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a first in Mathematics in 1952. He was a Harmsworth Senior Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, from 1955 to 1956.[3] He obtained his PhD in 1959 under the supervision of Edward Charles Titchmarsh at the University of Oxford.[4]

He was a junior lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Oxford from 1956 to 1958, and a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Edinburgh from 1958 to 1960. He then returned to Oxford to take up a Fellowship in Pure Mathematics at Wadham College.[3] He remained in Oxford until 1988, becoming a university lecturer in 1970, and a senior research fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Council from 1986 to 1991.[5] In 1988 McLeod took up a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained until his retirement in 2007.[6]

McLeod married Eunice Third in 1956; they had three sons and a daughter.[5] He died in England on 20 August 2014, aged 84.[6]

Awards and honours

In 1965, he was awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize. he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1974, and received the Society's Keith Medal in 1987.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992.[1]

In 2011 he was awarded the Naylor Prize and Lectureship.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Hastings, Stuart (2016). "John Bryce McLeod. 23 December 1929 — 20 August 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 62. London: Royal Society: 381–407. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0031.
  2. ^ a b "Fellow details - McLeod; John Bryce (1929 - 2014)". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 463.
  4. ^ John Bryce McLeod at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ a b c Ball, John. "McLeod, John Bryce [known as J. Bryce McLeod]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.108577. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Emeritus Professor J. Bryce McLeod FRS Passes Away". Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh. 9 September 2014.
  7. ^ "List of LMS prize winners - NAYLOR PRIZE AND LECTURESHIP IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS". London Mathematical Society.