Identity area
Reference code
AU ANUA 93
Title
Date(s)
- 1970 - 1993 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
2.2 m (11 type 1 boxes)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Professor Roger Wolcott Richardson was born on 30 May 1930 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He graduated with the degree of BSc, majoring in physics, from Louisiana State University in 1951 and was then conscripted into the US Air Force. In 1958 he completed his PhD studies in geometry and topology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and accepted an Instructorship at Princeton University, 1958-1960. He was Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle 1960-1963, Associate Professor 1963-1967, Professor 1967-1972, Professor of Mathematics, University of Durham, UK 1972-1977. In 1977 he was appointed a Professorial Fellow in Mathematics at the Australian National University and in 1992, Chair in Mathematics. Richardson died on 17 June 1993.
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Department of Mathematics, was established in the Research School of Physical Sciences by the University Council in 1959 on the initiative of Director, Sir Mark Oliphant. The foundation head was Professor Bernhard Hermann Neumann, 1962-1975. Early chair holders were Professor J W Miles, 1962-1965 and Professor Kurt Mahler, 1963-1968; Professor Robert Edmund Edwards, 1970-1986. In 1989 it became part of the School of Mathematical Sciences, which was renamed the Mathematical Sciences Institute in 2002.
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection has not been processed.
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access under a thirty-year rule. Researchers must sign an access agreement.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Dates of creation revision deletion
Prepared by Maggie Shapley on 24 January 2008