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Charles Coulson
British applied mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious author (1910–1974)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 13 December 1910
- Died
- 7 January 1974
- Place of birth
- Dudley
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Coulson
- Sibling
- John Coulson
- Field of work
- mathematics, chemistry
- Occupation
- mathematician, chemist
- Position held
- Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, chairperson, chairperson, chairperson
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Faraday Lectureship Prize, Davy Medal, Tilden Prize, honorary doctor of the University of Otago
- archives at
- Bodleian Library
- birth name
- Charles Alfred Coulson
- doctoral advisor
- John Lennard-Jones, Ralph H. Fowler
- doctoral student
- H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, Anthony Joseph, Robert Benny Gerber, Raphael David Levine, Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Peter Higgs, Geoffrey Chester, David Eisenberg
- educated at
- University of Cambridge, Clifton College, Trinity College
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society of London, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, Royal Society of Edinburgh, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- name in native language
- Charles Alfred Coulson
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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