John Bryce McLeod

John Bryce McLeod, FRS FRSE[1] (23 December 1929 in Aberdeen, UK – 20 August 2014 in Pittsburgh, USA[2]) was a British mathematician, who worked on linear and nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations.

Life and education

McLeod was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School; the University of Aberdeen, where he took a first in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1950; and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a first in Mathematics in 1952. He was a Harmsworth Senior Scholar at Merton College, Oxford from 1955 to 1956.[3] He obtained his PhD in 1959 under the supervision of Edward Charles Titchmarsh at the University of Oxford.[4]

McLeod was a Junior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Oxford from 1956 to 1958, and a Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh from 1958 to 1960. He then returned to Oxford to take up a Fellowship in Pure Mathematics at Wadham College.[3] He remained in Oxford until 1988, becoming a University Lecturer in 1970, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Council from 1986 to 1991.[5] In 1988 McLeod took up a Professorship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained until his retirement in 2007.[6]

McLeod married Eunice Third in 1956; they had three sons and a daughter.[5]

McLeod died on 20 August 2014, aged 84.[6]

Awards and honours

In 1965, he was awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize. he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1974, and received the Society's Keith Medal in 1987.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992.[1]

In 2011, he was awarded the Naylor Prize and Lectureship.[7]

References
  1. Hastings, Stuart (2016). "John Bryce McLeod. 23 December 1929 — 20 August 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0031.
  2. "DServe Archive Persons Show". The Royal Society.
  3. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 463.
  4. "John McLeod". Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  5. Ball, John. "McLeod, John Bryce [known as J. Bryce McLeod]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  6. "Emeritus Professor J. Bryce McLeod FRS Passes Away | Department of Mathematics | University of Pittsburgh". www.mathematics.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  7. "List of LMS prize winners". London Mathematical Society.


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