Tom Willmore

Tom Willmore

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name = Tom Willmore

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caption = Tom in 1979 at the Oberwolfach mathematical research institute by Prof. Konrad Jacobs.
birth_date = birth date|1919|4|16|df=y
birth_place = Gillingham, England
death_date = death date and age|2005|2|20|1919|4|16|df=y
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field = Mathematician
work_institution = King's College London, University of Durham, University of Liverpool
alma_mater = King's College London
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known_for = Willmore energy, Willmore flow, Willmore conjecture
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footnotes = "Note: PhD written/gained during WWII, advisor unknown"

Thomas James Willmore (16 April 1919 – 20 February 2005) was an English geometer. He is best known for his work on Riemannian 3-space and harmonic spaces.

Willmore studied at King's College London. After his graduation in 1939, he was appointed as a lecturer, but the onset of World War II led him to working as a scientific officer at RAF Cardington, working mainly on barrage balloon defences. During the war, he found the time to write his PhD on relativistic cosmology, and gained his PhD in 1943.

In 1946, he was given a lectureship at the University of Durham. He wrote an influential book with AG Walker and HS Ruse entitled "Harmonic Spaces" in 1953. He left Durham in 1954 for the University of Liverpool to join Walker, after a supposed dispute between Willmore and a Durham colleague who refused to order German textbooks after being wounded in World War I.

In 1965, Willmore returned to Durham, where he was appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics. In fact, he was the first professor to be appointed without an Oxbridge background. He was elected Vice President of the London Mathematical Society in 1977, a post he held for two years. During that time, he was elected a member of The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium.

Willmore retired from Durham in 1984 after holding the position of the Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences on three separate occasions, covering most of his Professorship there. He was given an honorary degree from the Open University in 1994.

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See also

* Willmore conjecture
* Willmore energy
* Willmore flow

References

* [http://www.dur.ac.uk/news.service/more.php?item_type=news&itemID=799 University News] , Durham University, 24 February 2005
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1595400,00.html "Tom Willmore - Comment"] , "The Times", 3 May 2005
* [http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/~dma0jb/davidontom.pdf "A Passion for Mathematics"] by David Bomgardner, Durham University, 30 August 2005


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