Peter Dixon -- biographical information

Born October 1945 in Cheshire, UK. I was brought up in Herefordshire, where my father, Grant Dixon, lived until four months before he died.

Secondary education at the Grammar School, Ross-on-Wye and the High School, Hereford.

University education at Cambridge: Churchill College (1963-69) and Clare College (1969-70):

1966 Mathematical Tripos Part II; (B.A. degree)

1967 Mathematical Tripos Part III;

1970 Ph.D. in the Department of Pure Mathematics, thesis entitled "Generalized B*-algebras".

Subsequent career:

Clare College, Cambridge: Research Fellow in Pure Mathematics, (1969--73);

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield (old picture - before I arrived): Lecturer (1973-91), Senior Lecturer (1991--92), Reader (1992-2009), retired October 2009;

Sc.D. (1991).

Membership of Learned Societies:

London Mathematical Society;

American Mathematical Society.

Outside interests

Reading, Fell-walking (old picture), music, (none seriously).

Dept. of  Pure Maths

School of Mathematics and Statistics (SoMaS)