John M. Ball

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Sir
John Ball
David Eric Edmunds[1]

Sir John Macleod Ball

FRSE (born 19 May 1948) is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford
.

Ball was educated at

Sussex University, and prior to taking up his Oxford post was a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.[2]

Ball's research interests include

New Year Honours list for 2006 "for services to Science".[3] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters[4] and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

He was a member of the first Abel Prize Committee in 2002

Along with

Ball received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1998.[10]

He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1980.[11] He also holds a visiting position at the University of Edinburgh.[12]

Personal life

He is married to Lady Sedhar Chozam-Ball, actress, and has three children.[2]

References

  1. ^ John M. Ball at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b c "CV" (PDF). John M. Ball. Retrieved 30 July 2009.
  3. ^ "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood" (PDF). BBC. Retrieved 30 July 2009.
  4. ^ "Gruppe 1: Matematiske fag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  5. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-03.
  6. ^ "The Abel Committee 2003/2004". www.abelprize.no.
  7. ^ "Highly Cited Researchers – The Most Influential Scientific Minds". HCR.
  8. ^ Biographical sketch, retrieved 2014-12-20.
  9. ^ "King Faisal Prize".
  10. ^ "Annual Report 1998". www.ma.hw.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  11. ^ "Professor Sir John Macleod Ball FRS FRSE – The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  12. ^ "John Ball".

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