Awards & Winners

James H. Wilkinson

Date of Birth 27-September-1919
Place of Birth Strood
(United Kingdom)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as James Hardy Wilkinson
Profession Scientist, Mathematician, Computer Scientist
James Hardy Wilkinson FRS was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering.

Awards by James H. Wilkinson

Check all the awards nominated and won by James H. Wilkinson.

1987


Chauvenet Prize
(For his article, The Perfidious Polynomial.)

1970


Turing Award
(For his research in numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, having received special recognition for his work in computations in linear algebra and backward error analysis)