Background
OPPENHEIM, Tan Sri Alexander was born on February 4, 1903 in Salford. Son of Harris Jacob Oppenheim and Fanny Ginsberg.
OPPENHEIM, Tan Sri Alexander was born on February 4, 1903 in Salford. Son of Harris Jacob Oppenheim and Fanny Ginsberg.
Manchester Grammar School, and Balliol College, Oxford.
Lecturer Edinburgh University 1930-1931. Professor, of Mathematics Raffles College Singapore 1931-1942, 1945-1949, Deputy Principal 1947 and 1949. Professor, of Mathematics University of Malaya 1949-1957, Dean Faculty of Arts 1949, 1951 and 1953, Acting Vice-Chancellor 1955, Vice-Chancellor 1957-1965.
Visiting Professor, of Mathematics, Reading University 1965-1968, University of Ghana 1968-1973, University of Benin, Nigeria 1973-1977.
Prisoner of war in Singapore and Thailand 1942-1945. Dean, Prisoner of War University 1942.
President Malayan Mathematical Society 1951-1955, 1957, Singapore Chess Club 1956, Oxford and Cambridge Society 1952, 1957. President Mathematical Association of Ghana 1969-1970.
Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh, World Academy, of Art and Science.
Association of Southeast Asian Instituts of Higher Learning 1959-1961, Academic Advisory Committee, LTniv. of Cape Coast 1972.
Married Beatrice Templer Nesbit in 1930 (divorced in 1977).