Education
He was educated at the University of Cambridge and Sussex University, and prior to taking up his Oxford post was a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
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Sir John Macleod Ball Federal Reserve System FRSE is Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
Career
He was the President of the International Mathematical Union from 2003-2006 and a Fellow of Queen"s College, Oxford. Ball"s research interests include elasticity, the calculus of variations, and infinite-dimensional dynamical systems He was knighted in the New Year Honours list for 2006 "for services to Science".
From 1996 - 1998 he was president of the London Mathematical Society, and from 2003 - 2006 he was president of the International Mathematical Union, IMU. In October 2011 he was elected on the Executive Board of International Council for Science for a three-year period starting January 2012.
Ball is listed as an Inter-Services Intelligence highly cited researcher
Achievements
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He was a member of the first Abel Prize in 2002 and for the Fields Medal in 1998. Along with Stuart S. Antman he won the Theodore von Kármán Prize in 1999.
Membership
Royal Society; Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. American Mathematical Society. Academia Europaea; Royal Society of Edinburgh]
He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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United Kingdom
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Awards
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Fellow of the Royal SocietyKármán Prize; Fields Medal; Abel Prize
The Abel Prize is an international prize presented by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians.The Abel Prize is an international prize presented by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians.