Leslie Colin Woods

Leslie Colin Woods (1922–2007) was a New Zealand mathematician.

Leslie Colin Woods
Born
Leslie Colin Woods

6 December 1922
Reporoa, New Zealand
Died15 April 2007
Oxford, United Kingdom
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisor Alexander Thom
Doctoral studentsJason Reese

Early Life

Woods was born on 6 December 1922 in Reporoa, New Zealand. Woods' father was a fisherman.[1] His surname was originally Woodhead.

His school education was completed in New Zealand schools. In his autobiography Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider, he gives credit to his school teachers, including Colin Maloy and G J Park, for kindling his interest in science and encouraging him to take up a career in academia.[2]

Education

Woods completed his BSc in 1944 and his MSc in 1947.[1]

Career

Woods was the Nuffield Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Technology at Sydney.[3] He was elected a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1961 where he researched the theory of magnetically-confined hot plasmas. Woods was professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford from 1970 until his retirement in 1990. [4]

Personal life

In 1943, Woods married Betty Bayley. [1] On 15 April 2007, Woods died in Oxford, UK.

Honours and awards
  • Rhodes scholarship, 1947 [3]

Bibliography

His notable books include:[5]

  • Physics of Plasmas
  • Theory of Tokamak Transport: New Aspects for Nuclear Fusion Reactor Design
  • Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider
gollark: What, so if you just ignore things which depend on implementation details they'll just work fine?
gollark: It seems like your attitude is the sort of thing which causes awful performance, useless programs, and side channel attacks.
gollark: Implementation details are an implementation detail.
gollark: Also please fix it it doesn't work half the time AAAAAA
gollark: Rate my code, then! https://pastebin.com/86Kjhq32

References
  1. Tee, Garry; Wake, Graeme (7 June 2007). "Obituary: Leslie Woods". the Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  2. Woods, L. C. (1 January 2000). "Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider". CRC Press. Retrieved 16 May 2018 – via Google Books.
  3. "Professor Les Woods". 20 May 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  4. Woods, Leslie (2006). Theory of Tokamak Transport. Oxford: Wiley-VCH. ISBN 3-527-40625-5.
  5. "Leslie Colin Woods". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
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