Herbert Turnbull

Professor
Herbert Turnbull
FRS FRSE
from 1926
Born
Herbert Westren Turnbull

(1885-08-31)31 August 1885
Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
Died4 May 1961(1961-05-04) (aged 75)
NationalityBritish
AwardsSmith's Prize (1909)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews
Doctoral studentsWalter Ledermann[2]

Herbert Westren Turnbull (31 August 1885 – 4 May 1961) was an English mathematician.[1][2][3] From 1921 to 1950 he was Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews.[4]

  1. ^ a b Aitken, A. C. (1962). "Herbert Westren Turnbull 1885-1961". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 8: 149–158. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1962.0011. JSTOR 769468.
  2. ^ a b Herbert Turnbull at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Herbert Westren Turnbull". Britannica.com. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  4. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Herbert Westren Turnbull", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews