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Also Known As William Vallance Douglas Hodge
Born June 17, 1903 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died July 7, 1975 (aged 72) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1974)
Notable Works “Theory and Application of Harmonic Integrals”
Subjects Of Study Hodge conjecture
David Mumford
British mathematician
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Sir Horace Lamb.
Sir Horace Lamb
English mathematician
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Mary Cartwright, 1947
Mary Cartwright
British mathematician
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle
British mathematician and astronomer
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
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Timothy Gowers
British mathematician
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Arthur Cayley
British mathematician
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
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Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
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