Alexander Oppenheim

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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