W. V. D. Hodge Scientist

William Vallance Douglas Hodge FRS (17 June 1903 – 7 July 1975) was a Scottish mathematician, specifically a geometer.His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry.

Personal facts

Birth date	June 17, 1903
Birth place	Edinburgh
Nationality	United Kingdom
Date of death	July 07, 1975
Place of death	Cambridge
Education	University of Edinburgh
Known for	Hodge dual Hodge conjecture Hodge bundle