Joseph Wedderburn
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Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn (1882–1948)
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| Born |
2 February 1882 Forfar, Angus, Scotland |
| Died | 9 October 1948 (aged 66) Princeton, New Jersey, US |
| Residence | US |
| Citizenship | American |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Doctoral advisor | George Chrystal |
| Doctoral students |
Merrill Flood Nathan Jacobson Ernst Snapper |
| Known for |
Wedderburn-Etherington number Artin–Wedderburn theorem |
| Notable awards | MacDougall-Brisbane Gold Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society |
Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS (2 February 1882, Forfar, Angus, Scotland – 9 October 1948, Princeton, New Jersey) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. He also worked on group theory and matrix algebra.
His younger brother was the lawyer Ernest Wedderburn.
Joseph Wedderburn was the tenth of fourteen children of Alexander Wedderburn of Pearsie, a physician, and Anne Ogilvie. Educated at Forfar Academy and George Watson's College, Edinburgh, in 1898 he entered the University of Edinburgh. In 1903, he published his first three papers, worked as an assistant in the Physical Laboratory of the University, obtained an MA degree with First Class Honours in mathematics, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, upon the proposal of George Chrystal, James Gordon MacGregor, Cargill Gilston Knott and William Peddie.
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