Bertram Martin Wilson

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Born

14 November 1896
London, England

Died

18 March 1935
Dundee, Scotland

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Summary

Bertram Wilson graduated from Cambridge and had posts at Liverpool and Dundee. He died very young.

Biography

Bertram Wilson's parents were the Reverend Alfred Henry Wilson and Ellen Elizabeth Vincent. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, before entering Trinity College Cambridge in 1916. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of Liverpool in 1920, being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1926.

He married Margaret Fancourt Mitchell in 1930. In 1933 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at University College, Dundee, at that time part of the University of St Andrews.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 5 March 1934 having been proposed by Sir Edmund T Whittaker, James H Ashworth, Nicholas M H Lightfoot, Edward Thomas Copson.

His obituary written by U S Haslam-Jones, was published in the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and is at THIS LINK.

References (show)

1. U S Haslam-Jones, Bertram Martin Wilson, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. 4 (1934-36), 268-269.

Additional Resources (show)

Other pages about Bertram Wilson:

1. Obituary: EMS

Other websites about Bertram Wilson:

1. zbMATH entry

Honours (show)

Honours awarded to Bertram Wilson

1. Lecturer at the EMS

Cross-references (show)

1. Other: Edinburgh Mathematical Society Lecturers 1883- 2023

Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Last Update August 2007