Background
COXETER, Harold Scolt MacDonald. PH D. was born on February 9, 1907 in London. Son of Harold Samuel Coxeter and Lucy (nee Gee) Coxeter.
COXETER, Harold Scolt MacDonald. PH D. was born on February 9, 1907 in London. Son of Harold Samuel Coxeter and Lucy (nee Gee) Coxeter.
King Alfred School, London, St. George’s School, Harpenden, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Fellow, Princeton 1932-1933. Procter Fellow, Princeton 1934-1935. Assistant Professor, Toronto 1936-1943, Association Professor 1943-1948, Professor, of Mathematics 1948-1980, Professor Emeritus since 1980.
Visiting Professor, Notre Dame 1947, Columbia University 1949, Dartmouth College 1964, University of Amsterdam 1966, University of Edinburgh 1967, University of E. Anglia 1968, Australian National University 1970, University of Sussex 1972, University of Warwick 1976, California Institute of Technology 1977, University of Bologna 1978.
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Mathematische Gesellschaft in Hamburg, London Mathematical Society, etc.
Married Hendrina Johanna Brouwer in 1936.