Gilbert Rathbone Winham (11 May 1938 – 1 January 2019) was an American-born political scientist.

Early life

Winham was born in

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on 11 May 1938 to parents Alfred R. Winham and Margery Rankin Post. Winham served in the

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for three years prior to attending the University of Manchester, where he earned a diploma in international law. Following the completion of a doctorate at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which r ...

, Winham taught at

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. He joined the

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faculty in 1975 and retired in 2003. Winham was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1994. He died in

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on 1 January 2019, aged 80.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Winham, Gilbert 1938 births 2019 deaths Writers from New York City American political scientists Alumni of the University of Manchester University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni McMaster University faculty Dalhousie University faculty Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada United States Navy sailors