Education
Born in Strood, England, he attended the Sir Joseph Williamson"s Mathematical School in Rochester. He studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at, Cambridge, where he graduated as Senior Wrangler.
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Career
Taking up war work in 1940, he began working on ballistics but transferred to the National Physical Laboratory in 1946, where he worked with Alan Turing on the American Council on Exercise computer project Later, Wilkinson"s interests took him into the numerical analysis field, where he discovered many significant algorithms.
Achievements
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Wilkinson received the Turing Award in 1970 "for his research in numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, having received special recognition for his work in computations in linear algebra and "backward" error analysis." In the same year, he also gave the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) John von Neumann Lecture. The J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software is named in his honour.
Membership
Royal Society.
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Nationality
United Kingdom