John M. Ball
Sir John Ball | |
|---|---|
 Sir John Macleod Ball | |
| Born | 19 May 1948[1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of Sussex |
| Awards | Whittaker Prize (1981) Junior Whitehead Prize (1982) David Crighton Medal Sylvester Medal (2009) King Faisal International Prize (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Heriot-Watt University University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | David Eric Edmunds[2] |
Sir John Macleod Ball FRS FRSE (born 19 May 1948) is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the President of the International Mathematical Union from 2003–06 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
Ball was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge and Sussex University, and prior to taking up his Oxford post was a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.[1]
Ball's research interests include elasticity, the calculus of variations, and infinite-dimensional dynamical systems. He was knighted in the New Year Honours list for 2006 "for services to Science".[3] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters[4] and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
He was a member of the first Abel Prize Committee in 2002[6] and for the Fields Medal Committee in 1998. From 1996 - 1998 he was president of the London Mathematical Society, and from 2003 - 2006 he was president of the International Mathematical Union, IMU. In October 2011 he was elected on the Executive Board of ICSU for a three-year period starting January 2012. Ball is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[7]
Along with Stuart S. Antman he won the Theodore von Kármán Prize in 1999.[8] In 2018 he received the King Faisal International Prize in Mathematics.[9]
Ball received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1998.[10]
He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1980.[11]
Personal life[]
He is married to Lady Sedhar Chozam-Ball, actor, and has three children.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "CV" (PDF). John M. Ball. Retrieved 30 July 2009.
- ^ John M. Ball at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood" (PDF). BBC. Retrieved 30 July 2009.
- ^ "Gruppe 1: Matematiske fag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-03.
- ^ "The Abel Committee 2003/2004". www.abelprize.no.
- ^ "Highly Cited Researchers - The Most Influential Scientific Minds". HCR.
- ^ Biographical sketch, retrieved 2014-12-20.
- ^ "King Faisal Prize".
- ^ "Annual Report 1998". www.ma.hw.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Professor Sir John Macleod Ball FRS FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
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