Died 1958-02-12.
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Douglas Hartree
Douglas Rayner Hartree was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree–Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyser using Meccano.
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Born 27 March 1897 · Died 12 February 1958 · Q451770
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1958· 1 entry
1950· 1 entry
Of the potential demand for computers, which was much lower than turned out to be the case: "We have a computer here in Cambridge, one in Manchester and one at the [NPL]
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1946· 2 entries
Two years before stored programming electronic computing became a reality, Hartree saw the need for the use of sub-routines
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Hartree briefed Maurice Wilkes of the University of Cambridge on the comparative developments in computing in the USA which he had seen
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1939· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1939–1940).
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1935· 1 entry
His father, William Hartree, offered to do calculations for him
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1933· 1 entry
Visited Vannevar Bush at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and learned first hand about his differential analyser
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1932).
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1929· 1 entry
Hartree was appointed to the Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester
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1922· 1 entry
With a Second Class degree in natural sciences
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1921· 2 entries
Studied at University of Cambridge (1919–1921).
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A visit by Niels Bohr to Cambridge inspired Hartree to apply his numerical skills to Bohr's theory of the atom, for which he obtained his PhD in 1926 – his advisor was Ernest Rutherford
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1917· 1 entry
Studied at St John's College (1915–1917).
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1915· 1 entry
Studied at Bedales School (1915).
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-03-27.
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