John Stephen Roy Chisholm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Stephen Roy Chisholm

British mathematical physicist

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1926

Place of Birth: Barnet, England, United Kingdom

Profession: physicist, mathematician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

J.
S.
R.
(Roy) Chisholm (26 November 1926–10 August 2015) was an English mathematical physicist.
He was Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he worked from its founding in 1965 until 1994.
Before that he held positions at the University of Glasgow (1951-1954) and Cardiff (1954-1962) following which he was appointed Dublin University Professor of Natural Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin (1962-1966).
He held BA (1948) and PhD (1952) degrees from Cambridge.Chisholm developed a method for rational approximations of two variable functions generalising Padé approximant.