Education
Educated at Saint Andrews University, where he received with honours a bachelor"s degree in mathematics in 1953, he took his Doctor of Philosophy there in 1956.
Educated at Saint Andrews University, where he received with honours a bachelor"s degree in mathematics in 1953, he took his Doctor of Philosophy there in 1956.
He is best known for his authoritative and extensive work entitled Mathematical Biology, recently re-edited. His first post was at the University of Durham, United Kingdom. Later he has held positions at Harvard University, London and Oxford, becoming professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan in 1965, at the age of 34.
He left Oxford in the late 1980s for the University of Washington in Seattle, where he spent the rest of his career as professor of mathematics and adjunct professor of zoology. His research is characterised by its great range and depth: an early example is his fundamental contributions to understanding the biomechanics of the human body when launched from an aircraft in an ejection seat.
He has made contributions to many other areas, ranging from understanding and preventing severe scarring.
Fingerprint formation. Sex determination, modeling of animal coat and territory formation in wolf-deer interacting populations. Selected publications.
Royal Society; French Academy of Sciences.
