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
- Member, Academia Europaea, 2008
- Honorary Member, Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 2008
- Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2007
- Royal Medal, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2006
- Knighthood, 2006
- Foreign Member, Istituto Lombardo, 2005
- Honorary D.Sc. University of Edinburgh, 2005
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2003
- Honorary D.Sc. Universit´e Montpellier II, 2003
- Mathematical Society, 2003
- David Crighton Medal, jointly awarded by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the London
- Honorary D.Sc. University of Sussex, 2000
- Associé Etranger, Académie des Sciences, Paris, (elected 2000)
- Theodore von Karman Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1999
- Honorary D.Sc., Heriot-Watt University, 1998
- Naylor Prize of London Mathematical Society, 1995
- Honorary Degree, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1992
- Keith Prize, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1990
- Fellow of Royal Society of London (elected 1989)
- Junior Whitehead Prize of London Mathematical Society 1982
- Whittaker Prize of Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1981
- Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected 1980)
