| 词条 | Leslie Colin Woods |
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|name = Leslie Colin Woods |image = | honorific_suffix = |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = Leslie Colin Woods |birth_date = 6 December 1922 |birth_place = Reporoa, New Zealand |death_date = 15 April 2007 |death_place = Oxford, United Kingdom |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = New Zealand |ethnicity = |fields = Mathematics |workplaces = |alma_mater = University of Oxford |doctoral_advisor = Alexander Thom |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = Jason Reese |notable_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |awards = |religion = |signature = |footnotes = }} Leslie Colin Woods (1922–2007) was a New Zealand mathematician. Early LifeWoods was born on 6 December 1922 in Reporoa, New Zealand. Woods' father was a fisherman.[1] His surname was originally Woodhead. His school education was completed in New Zealand schools. In his autobiography Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider, he gives credit to his school teachers, including Colin Maloy and G J Park, for kindling his interest in science and encouraging him to take up a career in academia.[2] EducationWoods completed his BSc in 1944 and his MSc in 1947.[1] CareerWoods was the Nuffield Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Technology at Sydney.[3] He was elected a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1961 where he researched the theory of magnetically-confined hot plasmas. Woods was professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford from 1970 until his retirement in 1990. [4] Personal lifeIn 1943, Woods married Betty Bayley. [1] On 15 April 2007, Woods died in Oxford, UK. Honours and awards
BibliographyHis notable books include:[5]
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/07/guardianobituaries.obituaries|title=Obituary: Leslie Woods|first1=Garry|last1=Tee|first2=Graeme|last2=Wake|date=7 June 2007|website=the Guardian|accessdate=16 May 2018}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=gtcgCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Cyril+Maloy&source=bl&ots=uYMhDs4mhT&sig=zZATku0kE5p5pLZRrPi2jEy9BRQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9ytD9iojbAhUkT48KHec6DtMQ6AEIQjAI#v=onepage&q=Cyril+Maloy&f=false|title=Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider|first=L. C.|last=Woods|date=1 January 2000|publisher=CRC Press|accessdate=16 May 2018|via=Google Books}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1552138/Professor-Les-Woods.html|title=Professor Les Woods|date=20 May 2007|publisher=|accessdate=16 May 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}} 4. ^{{cite book |last=Woods |first=Leslie |date=2006 |title=Theory of Tokamak Transport |location=Oxford |publisher=Wiley-VCH |isbn=3-527-40625-5 }} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1703757.Leslie_Colin_Woods|title=Leslie Colin Woods|website=www.goodreads.com|accessdate=16 May 2018}} External links
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