Ludwig Edward Fraenkel FRS (28 May 1927 – 27 April 2019) was a German-born British

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, and professor at the

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. He was the son of classicist

Eduard Fraenkel Eduard David Mortier Fraenkel FBA () was a German classical scholar who served as the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1935 until 1953. Born to a family of assimilated Jews in the German Empire, he studied Cl ...

Education

Fraenkel earned an undergraduate degree (in 1947) and a

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degree (in 1948) from the

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in the area of Aeronautical Engineering. His thesis was on the design of nozzles for supersonic wind tunnels.

Awards and honours

In 1989, he was awarded the

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. He was elected a

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in 1993.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fraenkel, Edward 2019 deaths 1927 births 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Bath Fellows of the Royal Society German emigrants to England Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge