Talk:C. Brian Haselgrove

Dates

There seems to be confusion over the date of Haselgrove's Ph.D. According to [1] he won the Smith prize in 1950, suggesting that he was a research student then, so 1951 would be a plausible date for the thesis, agreeing with the 1951 date for his JLMS paper of the same title, which may well have been a published version. However, [2] gives 1956, which seems less plausible. In any event, linking the thesis in the infobox to the JLMS paper seems wrong, as, even if they have the same title, there is no reason to believe that the paper is identical to the thesis. Spectral sequence (talk) 20:05, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

You make good arguments for a much earlier date. I should have checked more carefully, particularly when there is a paper with the same title but published 5 years apart! My source for the 1956 date was the theses.com entry, which is confirmed by the Abstracts of Dissertations Approved for the Ph.D., M.Sc., and M.Litt. Degrees in the University of Cambridge 1955-1956. The Cambridge online catalogue lists thesis titles only from 1970, so we can't look there. I wonder why there was a gap? Gareth Jones (talk) 12:09, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I agree that the University Abstracts volume supports the date 1955 or 6. Spectral sequence (talk) 18:20, 25 June 2013 (UTC)