Edward Thomas Copson
1901 - 1980
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Edward Copson graduated from Oxford and was appointed a lecturer at Edinburgh. He later held posts at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich and Queen's College Dundee before being appointed Regius Professor at St Andrews. He was an expert on Complex Analysis and contributed many papers on this subject. He became Secretary of the EMS in 1924, President in 1930 and 1954 and an honorary member in 1979.
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| Honours awarded to Edward Copson (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1924 |
| EMS President | 1930 |
| EMS President | 1954 |
| Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh Maths Society | 1979 |
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