- Ioan James
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name = Ioan James
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birth_date = birth date and age|1928|05|23
birth_place =Croydon ,Surrey ,England
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alma_mater = St Paul's, The Queen's, Oxford [‘JAMES, Prof. Ioan Mackenzie’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U21758, accessed 27 March 2008] ]
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footnotes =Ioan Mackenzie James (born
May 23 ,1928 Croydon ,Surrey ,England [GRO Register of Births: SEP 1928 2a 638 CROYDON - Ioan M. James, mmn - Surridge] ) is a Britishmathematician working in the field oftopology particularly inhomotopy theory . He is a fellow of theRoyal Society . He received his D.Phil. from theUniversity of Oxford in 1953. His thesis, titled "Some problems in algebraic topology", was written under the direction ofJ. H. C. Whitehead .He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1995. He is now a
professor emeritus .In 1978 the
London Mathematical Society awarded him theSenior Whitehead Prize [cite web
url = http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/prizes_com/pastwinners.html#swhitehead
title = List of Prizewinners
author = London Mathematical Society
accessdate = 2007-07-08] , which was established in honour of his PhD supervisor, Whitehead.References
External links
*MathGenealogy |id=22474
*MacTutor Biography|id=James
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