Maurice Wilkes
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| Born | Maurice Vincent Wilkes 26 June 1913 Dudley, Worcestershire, England |
| Died | 29 November 2010 (aged 97) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Computer Science |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1936) |
| Thesis | The reflexion of very long wireless waves from the ionosphere (1939) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Ashworth Ratcliffe |
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| Spouse | Nina Twyman (m. 1947) |
| Children | one son, two daughters |
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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS,FREng, DFBCS (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Cambridge. He received a number of distinctions: he was a knight bachelor, Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Wilkes was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, England and grew up in Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, where his father worked on the estate of the Earl of Dudley. He was educated at King Edward VI College, Stourbridge and during his school years he was introduced to amateur radio by his chemistry teacher.
He went on to read the Mathematical Tripos at St John's College, Cambridge from 1931–34, continuing to complete a PhD in physics on the topic of radio propagation of very long radio waves in the ionosphere in 1936. He was appointed to a junior faculty position of the University of Cambridge through which he was involved in the establishment of a computing laboratory. He was called up for military service during World War II and worked on radar at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), and in operational research.
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