W. V. D. Hodge

Details

Instance of

human

Born

17 June 1903

Died

7 July 1975

Place of birth

Edinburgh

Place of death

Cambridge

Sex or gender

male

Given name

William, Vallance, Douglas

Family name

Hodge

Field of work

mathematics, geometry

Occupation

mathematician, astronomer

Position held

Master of Pembroke College, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, chairperson, chairperson

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society, Copley Medal, Royal Medal, De Morgan Medal, Adams Prize, Senior Berwick Prize, Knight Bachelor, Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize

birth name

William Vallance Douglas Hodge

doctoral advisor

E. T. Whittaker

doctoral student

Michael Atiyah, Bernard Scott, Samuel Lilley, David Simms, Ian R. Porteous

educated at

George Watson's College, St John's College, University of Edinburgh

employer

University of Cambridge, University of Bristol

honorific prefix

Sir

languages spoken, written or signed

English

member of

Royal Society of London, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, American Philosophical Society

name in native language

William Vallance Douglas Hodge

notable work

Hodge star operator, Hodge conjecture, Hodge algebra, Hodge theory, Hodge structure, Hodge index theorem, Hodge–Tate module, P-adic Hodge theory, Hodge bundle

relative

Alan Broadbent

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