George Neville Watson
1886 - 1965
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Neville Watson studied at Cambridge, and then taught at Cambridge and University College London before becoming Professor at Birmingham. He is best known as the joint author with Whittaker of one of the standard text-books on Analysis.
Mathematicians born in the same country
Additional Material in MacTutor
- Papers in the Proceedings and Notes of the EMS
- Obituary: The Times
- Obituary: Royal Society of Edinburgh
| Honours awarded to Neville Watson (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1919 |
| LMS President | 1933 - 1935 |
| Royal Society Sylvester Medal | 1946 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1949 |
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