Alexander Oppenheim

1957 - 1962

Education

• Manchester Grammar School
• Balliol College, Oxford
• PhD (Univ. of Chicago)
• DSc (Oxford)

Career

• 1927-30 Commonwealth Fund Fellow, University of Chicago and Princeton University
• 1930-31 Lecturer, Edinburgh University
• 1931-42 Professor of Mathematics, Raffles College
• 1947-49 Deputy Principal, Raffles College
• 1949-50, 53-54 Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Malaya
• 1957-61 Vice-Chancellor, University of Malaya (Singapore)
• 1962-65 Vice-Chancellor, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur)
• 1965-68 Visiting Professor of Mathematics, University of Reading
• 1968-73 Visiting Professor of Mathematics, University of Ghana
• 1973-77 Visiting Professor of Mathematics, University of Benin, Nigeria

Offices held

• President, Malayan Mathematical Society
• Member, Assoc. of Southeast Asian Inst. Of Higher Learning
• President, Mathematical Association of Ghana

Honours

• Hon. Doctor of Laws (University of Malaya)
• Hon. Member, University of Malaya Students' Union
• Alumni Medal, Chicago University Alumni Association
• Seri Maharaja Mangku Negara
• Knight of the Order of the Thistle
• Officer, Order of the British Empire