James D. Murray
James Murray | |
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| Born | James Dickson Murray 2 January 1931[3] Moffat,Scotland |
| Alma mater | University of St Andrews |
| Awards | FRS(1985)[1] IMA Gold Medal(2008) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Ronald Mitchell[2] |
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| Website | www |
James Dickson MurrayFRSEFRS,(born 2 January 1931) is professoremeritusofapplied mathematicsatUniversity of WashingtonandUniversity of Oxford.He is best known for his authoritative and extensive work entitledMathematical Biology.
Early life[edit]
Murray was born inMoffat,Scotland,and was educated atSt. Andrews University,where he received with honours a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1953, he took his PhD there in 1956.
Research and career[edit]
His first post was at theUniversity of Durham,UK; later he has held positions atHarvard University,London and Oxford, becoming professor of mechanical engineering at theUniversity of Michiganin 1965, at the age of 34.
He later became professor of mathematical biology at theUniversity of Oxford,a fellow and tutor in mathematics atCorpus Christi College, Oxfordand founder and director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology. He left Oxford in the late 1980s for theUniversity of Washingtonin Seattle, where he spent the rest of his career as professor of mathematics and adjunct professor of zoology.
His research is characterised by its great range and depth: an early example is his fundamental contributions to understanding thebiomechanicsof the human body when launched from an aircraft in anejection seat.He has made contributions to many other areas, ranging from understanding and preventing severe scarring; fingerprint formation;sex determination,modelling of animal coat and territory formation in wolf-deer interacting populations.
Awards and honours[edit]
Murray was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburghin 1979[4]and aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985.[1]
In 2008 Murray andProfessor T. J. Pedley,FRS were jointly awarded theGold Medalof theInstitute of Mathematics and its Applicationsin recognition of their "outstanding contributions to mathematics and its applications over a period of years".[5]
References[edit]
- ^ab"Professor James Murray FRS".London:Royal Society.Archived fromthe originalon 17 November 2015.
- ^James D. Murrayat theMathematics Genealogy Project
- ^"MURRAY, Prof. James Dickson".Who's Who.Vol. 2016 (onlineOxford University Pressed.). Oxford: A & C Black.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^"Emeritus Professor James Dickson Murray FRS FRSE".The Royal Society of Edinburgh.19 May 2017.Retrieved15 January2019.
- ^"IMA Gold Medal".Retrieved16 May2018.Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
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- 20th-century Scottish mathematicians
- 21st-century Scottish mathematicians
- Theoretical biologists
- Alumni of the University of St Andrews
- Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- Academics of Durham University
- Harvard University faculty
- University of Michigan faculty
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- University of Washington faculty
- Living people
- 1931 births