James D. Murray
Mathematician, Author
1931 –
Who is James D. Murray?
James Dickson Murray FRS, is Professor Emeritus of applied mathematics at University of Washington and University of Oxford. He is best known for his authoritative and extensive work entitled Mathematical Biology, recently re-edited.
Educated at St. Andrews University where he received with honours a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics in 1953, he took his PhD there in 1956. His first post was at the University of Durham, UK, later he has held positions at Harvard University, London and Oxford, becoming Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1965, at the age of 34.
He later became Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford, a fellow and tutor in mathematics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and founder and Director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology. He left Oxford, in the late 1980s for the University of Washington in Seattle, where he spent the rest of his career as Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Zoology.
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- Born
- Jan 2, 1931
Moffat - Also known as
- James Murray
- J. D. Murray
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of St Andrews
Mathematics
( - 1956)
- PhD, University of St Andrews
- Employment
- University of Michigan
- Lived in
- Seattle
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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