Phyllis Nicolson

Phyllis Nicolson
Born	Phyllis Lockett 21 September 1917 Macclesfield
Died	6 October 1968 Sheffield
Nationality	United Kingdom
Fields	Mathematics, Physics
Alma mater	Manchester University
Thesis	Three Problems in Theoretical Physics
Known for	Crank-Nicolson method

Phyllis Nicolson (21 September 1917 – 6 October 1968) was a British mathematician most known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson scheme together with John Crank.

She was born Phyllis Lockett in Macclesfield and went to . She graduated from Manchester University with a B.Sc. in 1938, M.Sc. in 1939 and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1946. She was a research student from 1945-46 and research fellow from 1946-49 at Girton College, Cambridge. She married Malcolm Nicolson, also a physicist, in 1942; after his accidental death in 1951 she was appointed to take over his lectureship in Physics at Leeds University. In 1955, she married physicist Malcolm McCaig. She died from cancer in 1968 in Sheffield.

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