Phyllis Nicolson
Phyllis Nicolson (born September 21, 1917 in Macclesfield , England , † October 6, 1968 in Sheffield , England) was an English mathematician . Her best-known work is the Crank-Nicolson method , which she developed together with John Crank .
She was born Phyllis Lockett in Macclesfield, England and attended High School in Stockport . At the University of Manchester she received her B.Sc. , a year later the M.Sc. and in 1946 the Ph.D.
From 1940 to 1945 she worked under Douglas Rayner Hartree in a research group in Manchester for the Ministry of Supply of the British government. From 1945 to 1949 she worked in research at Girton College , Cambridge . Together with John Crank she developed a solution for the heat conduction equation , the Crank-Nicolson method .
In 1942 she married Malcolm Nicolson and had their first child the day before her 30th birthday. After her husband died in a train accident in 1952, she took over his teaching position in physics at the University of Leeds . In 1956 she married the physicist Malcolm McCaig.
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Phyllis Nicolson. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nicolson, Phyllis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Macclesfield , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1968 |
| Place of death | Sheffield , England |