James Stirling (physicist)
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William James Stirling CBE FRS FInstP (4 February 1953 – 9 November 2018) was a physicist who served as the first Provost of Imperial College London. He was appointed to this role in August 2013 and retired in August 2018.[2]
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James Stirling | |
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Born | (1953-02-04)4 February 1953 |
Died | 9 November 2018(2018-11-09) (aged 65) |
Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge University |
Awards | Smith's Prize (1978) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Durham University CERN Cambridge University University of Washington |
Thesis | Deep Inelastic Processes in Asymptotically Free Theories (1979) |
Doctoral advisor | John Polkinghorne[1] |
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