Martin C. "Dill" Faulkes (born 1944) is a British businessman.
Faulkes has a Special Mathematics degree from
Hull University
, mottoeng = Bearing the Torch f learning, established = 1927 – University College Hull1954 – university status
, type = Public
, endowment = £18.8 million (2016)
, budget = £190 million ...
and a PhD in mathematics from
Queen Elizabeth College, London. He did postdoctoral work in
general relativity
General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity and Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of gravitation in modern physics ...
.
He then left academia and went into software. He worked for the company
Logica
Logica plc was a multinational IT and management consultancy company headquartered in London and later Reading, United Kingdom.
Founded in 1969, the company had offices in London and in a number of major cities across England, Wales and Scot ...
, then SPL, which was bought by
Systems Designers. He then invested money in a variety of software companies and made a lot of money on the flotation of Triad and the private sale of
SmartGroups.com.
He has made donations to a number of scientific causes and has had an asteroid (
47144 Faulkes) named after him.
References
External links
Interview & biographyFaulkes Educational TrustFaulkes Institute of GeometryFaulkes TelescopeFaulkes Flying Foundation
1944 births
Living people
British philanthropists
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