• DOI:10.1098/RSBM.1976.0007
• Corpus ID: 72054846

William Vallance Douglas Hodge, 17 June 1903 - 7 July 1975

@article{Atiyah1976WilliamVD,
  title={William Vallance Douglas Hodge, 17 June 1903 - 7 July 1975},
  author={Michael Francis Atiyah},
  journal={Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society},
  year={1976},
  pages={169 - 192}
}

• M. Atiyah
• Published 1 November 1976
• Economics
• Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

Sir William Hodge, formerly Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry in the University of Cambridge, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Physical Secretary of the Royal Society, was for over forty years a leading figure in British mathematical life. He died in July 1975 at the age of 72.