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| Born | (1929-12-23)23 December 1929 |
| Died | 20 August 2014(2014-08-20) (aged 84) |
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| Fields | Differential equations |
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| Thesis | Some Problems in the Theory of Eigenfunction Expansions (1959) |
| Doctoral students | Gillian 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.
McLeod was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 23 December 1929.[2] He was educated atAberdeen Grammar School; theUniversity of Aberdeen, where he took a first in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1950; andChrist Church, Oxford, where he took a first in Mathematics in 1952. He was a Harmsworth Senior Scholar atMerton College, Oxford, from 1955 to 1956.[3] He obtained his PhD in 1959 under the supervision ofEdward Charles Titchmarsh at the University of Oxford.[4]
He was a junior lecturer in Mathematics at theUniversity of Oxford from 1956 to 1958, and a lecturer in mathematics at theUniversity of Edinburgh from 1958 to 1960. He then returned to Oxford to take up a Fellowship in Pure Mathematics atWadham College.[3] He remained in Oxford until 1988, becoming a university lecturer in 1970, and a senior research fellow of theScience and Engineering Research Council from 1986 to 1991.[5] In 1988 McLeod took up a professorship at theUniversity 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]
In 1965, he was awarded theSir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize. he was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh in 1974, and received the Society'sKeith Medal in 1987.[5] He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992.[1]
In 2011 he was awarded theNaylor Prize and Lectureship.[7]
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