John Bryce McLeod | |
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| Born | December 23, 1929 |
| Died | August 20, 2014 (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 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]
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]
