Peter Chadwick (mathematician)

{{Short description|British applied mathematician and physicist}}

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| name = Peter Chadwick

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| birth_date = 23 March 1931

| birth_place = Huddersfield, England

| death_date = {{death-date and age|12 August 2018|23 March 1931}}

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| alma_mater = University of Manchester
Pembroke College, Cambridge

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Peter Chadwick {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRS}} (23 March 1931 – 12 August 2018) was a British applied mathematician and physicist.

A Huddersfield native born on 23 March 1931, Chadwick attended the University of Manchester (BSc, 1952) and completed his PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1957. He was Professor of Mathematics at the University of East Anglia from 1965 to 1991, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society{{Cite journal|last=Ogden|first=R. W.|date=2020|title=Peter Chadwick. 23 March 1931—12 August 2018|url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2020.0012|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=69|pages=109–131 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2020.0012 |s2cid=219181693 |doi-access=free}} in 1977. He died on 12 August 2018, aged 87.{{cite news |last1=Norton |first1=Joseph |title=Former head of UEA school known for immaculate writing dies |url=http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-chadwick-obit-1-5659812 |access-date=26 August 2018 |work=Eastern Daily Press |date=20 August 2018}}