Nationality British Role Mathematician Education University of Bristol | Alma mater University of Bristol Fields Mathematics Name Albrecht Frohlich Awards De Morgan Medal | |
Born 22 May 1916
Munich ( 1916-05-22 ) Doctoral advisor Hans Heilbronn
J. G. Mostyn Doctoral students Colin Bushnell
Rauf Qureshi
Martin J. Taylor Notable awards De Morgan Medal (1992)
Berwick Prize (1976)
Fellow of the Royal Society Died November 8, 2001, Cambridge Books Galois Module Structure, Gauss Sums and P‑adic Di, Algebraic Number Theory, Classgroups and Hermitian, Tame Representations of Local Similar People J W S Cassels, Martin J Taylor, Jurgen Neukirch, Hans Heilbronn | ||
Institutions University of London | ||
Albrecht Fröhlich FRS (22 May 1916 – 8 November 2001) was a mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers.
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Education
He was born in Munich to a Jewish family. He fled from the Nazis to France, and then to Palestine. He went to Bristol University in 1945, gaining a Ph.D in 1951 with a dissertation entitled On Some Topics in the Theory of Representation of Groups and Individual Class Field Theory under the supervision of Hans Heilbronn. He was a lecturer at the University of Leicester and then at the Keele University, then in 1962 moved as reader to King's College London where he worked until his retirement in 1981 when he moved to Robinson College, Cambridge.
Awards
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976. He was awarded the Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 1976 and its De Morgan Medal in 1992. The Society's Fröhlich Prize is named in his honour.
Personal
He is the brother of Herbert Fröhlich.