Maurice Wilkes Scientist

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS, FREng, DFBCS (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Cambridge. He received a number of distinctions: he was a knight bachelor, Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Personal facts

Birth date	June 26, 1913
Birth place	Dudley
Date of death	November 29, 2010
Place of death	Cambridge
Education	St John's College Cambridge
Known for	Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

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Scientist

awards	Turing Award Royal Society Faraday Medal Mountbatten Medal
doctoral advisor	J. A. Ratcliffe
doctoral student	David Wheeler (computer scientist) Michael Howard Kay Peter Wegner
Field of study	Computer science