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Peter Chadwick (mathematician)

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Peter Chadwick
Born23 March 1931
Huddersfield, England
Died12 August 2018 (2018-08-13) (aged 87)
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Pembroke College, Cambridge

Peter Chadwick FRS (23 March 1931 – 12 August 2018) was a British applied mathematician and physicist.

A Huddersfield native born on 23 March 1931, Chadwick attended the University of Manchester (BSc, 1952) and completed his PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1957. He was Professor of Mathematics at the University of East Anglia from 1965 to 1991, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society[1] in 1977. He died on 12 August 2018, aged 87.[2]

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  1. ^ Ogden, R. W. (2020). "Peter Chadwick. 23 March 1931—12 August 2018". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 69: 109–131. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0012. S2CID 219181693.
  2. ^ Norton, Joseph (20 August 2018). "Former head of UEA school known for immaculate writing dies". Eastern Daily Press. Retrieved 26 August 2018.