John Macleod Ball#
| Membership Number: | 2512 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/ball |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Professor
- Emeritus Fellow of The Queen's College
- 1996 Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Queen's College
- 2003 - 2006 President of the International Mathematical Union
- 1982 - 1996 Professor at Heriot- Watt University
- 1972 PhD at University of Sussex
Fields of Scholarship
- Calculus of variations and the mathematical theory of nonlinear elasticity
- Liquid crystals
- Nonlinear partial differential equations
- Micro structures
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Honorary Member, Edinburgh Mathematical Society
- 2007 Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2006 Royal Medal, Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2006 Knighthood
- 2005 Foreign Member, Istituto Lombardo
- 2005 Honorary D.Sc. University of Edinburgh
- 2003 Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
- 2003 Honorary D.Sc. Université Montpellier II
- 2003 Mathematical Society
- David Crighton Medal, jointly awarded by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the London
- 2000 Honorary D.Sc. University of Sussex
- 2000 Associé Etranger, Académie des Sciences, Paris
- 1999 Theodore von Karman Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- 1998 Honorary D.Sc., Heriot-Watt University
- 1995 Naylor Prize of London Mathematical Society
- 1992 Honorary Degree, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- 1990 Keith Prize, Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1989 Fellow of Royal Society of London
- 1982 Junior Whitehead Prize of London Mathematical Society
- 1981 Whittaker Prize of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
- 1980 Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
