Albrecht Fröhlich
FRS (22 May 1916 – 8 November 2001) was a German-born British mathematician, famous for his major results and
conjectures
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on
Galois module
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theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers.
Education
He was born in
Munich
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to a
Jew
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ish family. He fled from the
Nazi
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s to
France
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, and then to
Palestine
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. He went to
Bristol University
, mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'')
, established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter
, type ...
in 1945, gaining a Ph.D in 1951 with a dissertation entitled ''On Some Topics in the Theory of Representation of Groups and Individual Class Field Theory '' under the supervision of
Hans Heilbronn
Hans Arnold Heilbronn (8 October 1908 – 28 April 1975) was a mathematician.
Education
He was born into a German-Jewish family. He was a student at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen, where he met Edmund Landau, who supervised ...
. He was a lecturer at the
University of Leicester
, mottoeng = So that they may have life
, established =
, type = public research university
, endowment = £20.0 million
, budget = £326 million
, chancellor = David Willetts
, vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah
, head_labe ...
and then at the
Keele University
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, then in 1962 moved as reader to
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
where he worked until his retirement in 1981 when he moved to
Robinson College, Cambridge
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.
Awards
He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
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in 1976.
He was awarded the
Berwick Prize The Berwick Prize and Senior Berwick Prize are two prizes of the London Mathematical Society awarded in alternating years in memory of William Edward Hodgson Berwick, a previous Vice-President of the LMS. Berwick left some money to be given to the ...
of the
London Mathematical Society
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical S ...
in 1976 and its
De Morgan Medal
The De Morgan Medal is a prize for outstanding contribution to mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society. The Society's most prestigious award, it is given in memory of Augustus De Morgan, who was the first President of the societ ...
in 1992. The Society's
Fröhlich Prize
The Fröhlich Prize of the London Mathematical Society is awarded in even numbered years in memory of Albrecht Fröhlich. The prize is awarded for original and extremely innovative work in any branch of mathematics. According to the regulations ...
is named in his honour.
Personal
He is the brother of
Herbert Fröhlich
Herbert Fröhlich (9 December 1905 – 23 January 1991) FRS was a German-born British physicist.
Career
In 1927, Fröhlich entered Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich to study physics, and received his doctorate under Arnold Sommerfeld i ...
.
References
External links
Memorial note in LMS newsletter*The papers of Albrecht Fröhlich have just been processed by the NCUACS, Bath, Englan
They can be consulted in the Archives of King's College, London
1916 births
2001 deaths
20th-century English mathematicians
20th-century British mathematicians
Academics of Keele University
Academics of the University of Leicester
Academics of King's College London
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to France
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of Robinson College, Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Academics of the University of Bristol
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