| John Bryce McLeod | |
| Birth Date: | 23 December 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Aberdeen |
| Fields: | Differential equations |
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| Thesis Title: | Some Problems in the Theory of Eigenfunction Expansions |
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| Thesis Year: | 1959 |
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| Doctoral Students: | Gillian Slater |
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John Bryce McLeod, [1] (23 December 1929 – 20 August 2014[2]) was a British mathematician, who worked on linear and nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations.
McLeod was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 23 December 1929.[2] He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School; the University of Aberdeen, where he took a first in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1950; and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a first in Mathematics in 1952. He was a Harmsworth Senior Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, from 1955 to 1956.[3] He obtained his PhD in 1959 under the supervision of Edward Charles Titchmarsh at the University of Oxford.
He was a junior lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Oxford from 1956 to 1958, and a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Edinburgh from 1958 to 1960. He then returned to Oxford to take up a Fellowship in Pure Mathematics at Wadham College. He remained in Oxford until 1988, becoming a university lecturer in 1970, and a senior research fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Council from 1986 to 1991.[4] In 1988 McLeod took up a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained until his retirement in 2007.[5]
McLeod married Eunice Third in 1956; they had three sons and a daughter. He died in England on 20 August 2014, aged 84.
In 1965, he was awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize. he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1974, and received the Society's Keith Medal in 1987. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992.[1]
In 2011 he was awarded the Naylor Prize and Lectureship.[6]