- Albrecht Fröhlich
Albrecht Fröhlich (
22 May 1916 ,Munich –8 November 2001 ,Cambridge ) was amathematician famous for his major results and conjectures onGalois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers.He was born in
Munich to aJew ish family. He fled from the Nazis toFrance , and then to Palestine. He went toBristol University in 1945, gaining a Ph.D in 1951 with a dissertation entitled "On Some Topics in the Theory of Representation of Groups and Individual Class Field Theory " under the supervision ofHans Heilbronn . He was a lecturer at theUniversity of Leicester and then at the Keele University, then in 1962 moved as reader toKing's College London where he worked until his retirement in 1981 when he moved toRobinson College, Cambridge .He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976. He was awarded the Berwick Prize of theLondon Mathematical Society in 1976 and itsDe Morgan Medal in 1992. The Society'sFröhlich Prize is named in his honour.External links
* [http://www.lms.ac.uk/newsletter/0204/articles.html Memorial note in LMS newsletter]
* [http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/bio_mems/Frohlich%20press.pdf Biogr. Mem. Fell. R. Soc. 51 (2005) 149-168]
* [http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~ci3/manu.html#Frohlich Obituary in German]
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*The papers of Albrecht Fröhlich have just been processed by the NCUACS, Bath, England [http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/] . They can be consulted in the Archives of King's College, London
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