George F. D. Duff
Academic
1926 –
Who is George F. D. Duff?
George Francis Denton Duff was a Canadian mathematician who did research in partial differential equations and wave phenomena. He took an interest in harnessing the extraordinarily large tides in the Bay of Fundy for generating electricity.
Duff was a PhD student of Solomon Lefschetz at Princeton University. He became a professor at the University of Toronto in 1952. There, he supervised the Ph.D. theses of 13 students and served as chair of the Mathematics Department from 1968 to 1975.
Duff was an Invited Plenary speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver in1974.
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- Born
- Jul 28, 1926
Toronto - Education
- University of Toronto
- Princeton University
- Died
- May 20, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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