| 词条 | Herbert Turnbull |
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| image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Herbert Westren Turnbull | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1885|8|31}} | birth_place = Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1961|5|4|1885|8|31}} | doctoral_students = Walter Ledermann[1] |workplaces = University of St Andrews | death_place = | nationality = British | other_names = | known_for = | awards = Smith's Prize (1909) Fellow of the Royal Society[2] }} Prof Herbert Westren Turnbull FRS FRSE LLD (31 August 1885 – 4 May 1961) was an English mathematician.[1][2][3] From 1921 to 1950 he was Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews.[4] LifeHe was born in the Tettenhall district, on the outskirts of Wolverhampton on 31 August 1885, the eldest of five sons of William Peveril Turnbull, HM Inspector of Schools. He was educated at Sheffield Grammar School then studied Mathematics at Cambridge University graduating MA..[5] After serving as lecturer at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge (1909), the University of Liverpool (1910), and the University of Hong Kong (1912), Turnbull became master at St. Stephen’s College in Hong Kong (1911–15), and warden of the University Hostel (1913–15). He was a Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford (1919–26), and from 1921 held a chair of mathematics at the University of St Andrews. In 1922 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Crichton Mitchell, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Cargill Gilston Knott, and Herbert Stanley Allen. He won the Society's Keith Prize for 1923-25 and the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize for 1940-1944. In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[6] He was a keen mountain climber and served as President of the Scottish Mountaineering Club from 1948 to 1950. He retired in 1950 and died at Grasmere in the Lake District on 4 May 1951. FamilyIn 1911 he married Ella Drummond Williamson, daughter of Canon H. D. Williamson. They had one daughter.[7] Selected publications
References1. ^1 {{MathGenealogy|id=97121}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Turnbull, Herbert}}{{UK-mathematician-stub}}2. ^1 {{Cite journal | last1 = Aitken | first1 = A. C. | authorlink1 = Alexander Aitken| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1962.0011 | title = Herbert Westren Turnbull 1885-1961 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 8 | pages = 149 | year = 1962 | jstor = 769468}} 3. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/610239/Herbert-Westren-Turnbull | title = Herbert Westren Turnbull | publisher = Britannica.com | accessdate = 14 January 2013}} 4. ^{{MacTutor|id=Turnbull|title=Herbert Westren Turnbull}} 5. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 6. ^{{citeweb|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=26&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27turnbull%27%29|title=Fellow details| publisher=Royal Society|accessdate=20 November 2017}} 7. ^http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Turnbull.html 8 : 20th-century English mathematicians|1885 births|1961 deaths|People from Wolverhampton|Alumni of the University of Cambridge|Academics of the University of Cambridge|Fellows of the Royal Society|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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