John Williamson (mathematician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Scottish mathematician (1901-1949)
Date of Birth: 23-May-1901
Place of Birth: Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About John Williamson (mathematician)
- John Williamson (23 May 1901 – 1949) was a Scottish mathematician who worked in the fields of algebra, invariant theory, and linear algebra.
- Among other contributions, he is known for the Williamson construction of Hadamard matrices.
- Williamson graduated from the University of Edinburgh with first-class honours in 1922.
- Awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship in 1925, he studied at the University of Chicago under the direction of L.
- E.
- Dickson and E.
- H.
- Moore, receiving the Ph.D.
- in 1927.
- He held a Lectureship in Mathematics at the University of St Andrews and an Associate Professorship in Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.
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