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Sir John Macleod Ball
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| Born | May 19, 1948 [1] Farnham, Surrey |
| Residence | Oxford |
| Nationality | British |
| Institutions | Heriot-Watt University University of Oxford |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of Sussex |
| Doctoral advisor | David Eric Edmunds[2] |
| Notable awards | Whittaker Prize Junior Whitehead Prize David Crighton Medal |
Sir John Macleod Ball, FRSE FRS (born 1948) is Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the President of the International Mathematical Union from 2003-06 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and Sussex University, and prior to taking up his Oxford post was a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
Ball's research interests include elasticity, the calculus of variations, and infinite-dimensional dynamical systems. He was knighted in the New Year Honours list for 2006 "for services to Science".[3] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[4]
He was a member of the first Abel Prize in 2002 and for the Fields Medal in 1998. From 2003 - 2006 he was president of the International Mathematical Union, IMU. In October 2011 he was elected on the Executive Board of ICSU for a three year period starting January 2012.
Ball is married to Sedhar Chozam (Lady Sedhar Ball), a Tibetan-born actress. He has three children.[1]