Douglas Hartree | |
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| Born | Douglas Rayner Hartree 27 March 1897 Cambridge, England, UK |
| Died | 12 February 1958 (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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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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- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Douglas Hartree", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews