Peter Chadwick FRS (23 March 1931 – 12 August 2018) was a British applied mathematician and physicist.
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| Born | 23 March 1931 Huddersfield, England |
| Died | 12 August 2018 (aged 87) |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester Pembroke College, Cambridge |
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]
References
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- ^ Norton, Joseph (20 August 2018). "Former head of UEA school known for immaculate writing dies". Eastern Daily Press. Retrieved 26 August 2018.