Douglas Hartree
British mathematician and physicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Douglas Rayner Hartree FRS (27 March 1897 – 12 February 1958) was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree–Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyser using Meccano.[2][3]
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Born | Douglas Rayner Hartree (1897-03-27)27 March 1897 Cambridge, England, UK |
Died | 12 February 1958(1958-02-12) (aged 60) Cambridge, England, UK |
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
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Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | numerical analysis atomic physics |
Institutions | University of Manchester Ministry of Supply University of Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | Ralph H. Fowler[2] |
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