| Richard Rado | |
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Richard Rado, ca. 1967
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| Born | 28 April 1906 Berlin |
| Died | 23 December 1989 (aged 83) Reading |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of Berlin |
| Doctoral advisor | G. H. Hardy Issai Schur |
| Doctoral students | David Daykin Gabriel Dirac Kenneth Gravett Eric Milner |
| Known for | Erdős–Rado theorem Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem Milner–Rado paradox |
| Notable awards | Senior Berwick Prize (1972), Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Richard Rado FRS[1](28 April 1906 – 23 December 1989) was a Jewish German mathematician. He earned two Ph.D.s: in 1933 from the University of Berlin, and in 1935 from the University of Cambridge.[2][3][4] He was interviewed in Berlin by Lord Cherwell for a scholarship given by the chemist Sir Robert Mond which provided financial support to study at Cambridge. After he was awarded the scholarship, Rado and his wife left for the UK in 1933. He made contributions in combinatorics and graph theory. He wrote 18 papers with Paul Erdős. In 1964, he discovered the Rado graph.
In 1972, he was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize.[5]