Charles Fox (17 March 1897, in London – 30 April 1977, in

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) was the English mathematician who introduced the

Fox–Wright function In mathematics, the Fox–Wright function (also known as Fox–Wright Psi function, not to be confused with Wright Omega function) is a generalisation of the generalised hypergeometric function ''p'F'q''(''z'') based on ideas of and : _p ...

and the

Fox H-function In mathematics, the Fox H-function ''H''(''x'') is a generalization of the Meijer G-function and the Fox–Wright function introduced by . It is defined by a Mellin–Barnes integral : H_^ \!\left \begin ( a_1 , A_1 ) & ( a_2 , A_2 ) & \ldots & ( ...

. In 1976, he received an honorary doctorate from

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Charles Fox
at the

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