Ian Sneddon | |
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Born | Ian Naismith Sneddon 8 December 1919 Glasgow, Scotland |
Died | 4 November 2000 Glasgow, Scotland | (aged 80)
Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
Awards | FRS[1] Eringen Medal (1979) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Glasgow |
Doctoral students | Anthony Spencer[2] |
Prof Ian Naismith Sneddon FRS[1] FRSE FIMA OBE (8 December 1919 Glasgow, Scotland – 4 November 2000 Glasgow, Scotland) was a Scottish mathematician who worked on analysis and applied mathematics.[3][4]
Sneddon was born in Glasgow on 8 December 1919, the son of Mary Ann Cameron and Naismith Sneddon. He was educated at Hyndland School in Glasgow.[5]
He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Glasgow, graduating with a BSc. He then went to the University of Cambridge, gaining an MA in 1941. From 1942 to 1945, during World War II, he served as a Scientific Officer to the Ministry of Supply. After the war he worked as a Research Officer for H H Wills Laboratory at the University of Bristol. In 1946, he began lecturing in Natural Philosophy (physics) at the University of Glasgow.[6]
In 1950, he received a professorship at University College, North Staffordshire. In 1956, he returned to the University of Glasgow as Professor of Mathematics.
In 1958, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Robert Alexander Rankin, Philip Ivor Dee, William Marshall Smart and Edward Copson. He won the Society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for the period 1956-58. In 1983, he was further elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.[7][1]
He retired in 1985, and died in Glasgow on 4 November 2000.
In 1943, he married Mary Campbell Macgregor.
Sneddon's research was published widely including:
Sneddon received Honorary Doctorates from Warsaw University (1973), Heriot-Watt University (1982)[12] University of Hull (1983) and University of Strathclyde (1984).