George Frederick James Temple Explained

George Frederick James Temple
Birth Date:2 September 1901
Death Place:Isle of Wight
Fields:Mathematics
Alma Mater:Birkbeck College, London B.Sc (1922)
Doctoral Students:Susan Brown,[1] Alan B. Tayler

Dom George Frederick James Temple FRS[2] OSB (born 2 September 1901, London; died 30 January 1992, Isle of Wight) was an English mathematician, recipient of the Sylvester Medal in 1969. He was President of the London Mathematical Society in the years 1951–1953.

Temple took his first degree as an evening student at Birkbeck College, London, between 1918 and 1922, and also worked there as a research assistant. In 1924 he moved to Imperial College as a demonstrator, where he worked under the direction of Sydney Chapman. After a period spent with Eddington at Cambridge, he returned to Imperial as reader in mathematics. He was appointed professor of mathematics at King's College London in 1932, where he returned after war service with the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. In 1953 he was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a chair which he held until 1968, and in which he succeeded Chapman. He was also an honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.

After the death of his wife in 1980, Temple, a devout Christian, took monastic vows in the Benedictine order and entered Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight, where he remained until his death.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Susan Brown. 2018-01-02. University College London. 2 December 2021. 22 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210722093909/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/newsletter/professor-susan-brown. dead.
  2. Kilmister . C. W. . 10.1098/rsbm.1994.0046 . George Frederick James Temple. 2 September 1901-30 January 1992 . . 40 . 384–400. 1994 . free .