Dan Segal Scientist

Daniel Segal (born 1947) is a British mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He specialises in algebra and group theory.He studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge, before taking a PhD at Queen Mary College, University of London, in 1972, supervised by Bertram Wehrfritz, with a dissertation on group theory entitled Groups of Automorphisms of Infinite Soluble Groups. He is a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, where he is sub-warden.His postgraduate students have included Marcus du Sautoy and Geoff Smith. He is the son of psychoanalyst Hanna Segal and brother of philosopher Gabriel Segal.

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Dan Segal
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1947
Education
University of London
University of Cambridge

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awards
Adams Prize
doctoral advisor
Bertram Wehrfritz
doctoral student
Geoff Smith (mathematician)
Nikolay Nikolov (mathematician)

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