Alfred North Whitehead

Details

Instance of

human

Born

15 February 1861

Died

30 December 1947

Place of birth

Ramsgate

Place of death

Cambridge

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Alfred, North

Family name

Whitehead

Spouse

Evelyn Ada Maud Rice Willoughby-Wade

Child

Thomas North Whitehead

Sibling

Henry Whitehead

Field of work

logic, mathematics, philosophy of science, metaphysics

Occupation

philosopher, mathematician, physicist, theologian, writer, logician, university teacher

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society, honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Sylvester Medal, James Scott Prize Lectureship, Butler Medal, Order of Merit

doctoral advisor

Edward Routh, William Davidson Niven

doctoral student

Arthur Eddington, Lewis Samuel Feuer, John Maynard Keynes, Willard Van Orman Quine, Bertrand Russell, Paul Weiss, William Tuthill Parry, Henry Siggins Leonard, Grigoris Vlastos

educated at

Trinity College, Sherborne School, University of Cambridge

employer

Harvard University, Imperial College London, University of Cambridge

languages spoken, written or signed

English

member of

Royal Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society

notable work

Principia Mathematica, Process and Reality, The Concept of Nature (1920), Whitehead's theory of gravitation, Whitehead's point-free geometry, A Treatise on Universal Algebra, Science and the Modern World / Alfred North Whitehead

place of burial

Trinity College Chapel

relative

J. H. C. Whitehead

student

Robert Oppenheimer

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writing language

English

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