Professor Ian Sneddon

Professor Ian Sneddon, OBE, mathematician, was born on December 8, 1919. He was educated at Hyndland High School before completing a First Class Honours degree at the University of Glasgow in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1940.

After this he was awarded the Bryce Fellowship, which took him on to further study at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1943, Sneddon began working as a scientific officer with the Ministry of Supply at the Armaments Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead. After the war, he spent a year in Bristol working and collaborating with Neville Mott on nuclear physics, in particular on a publication entitled ‘Wave Mechanics and its Applications’ in 1948.

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