Phyllis Nicolson

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Phyllis Nicolson

Phyllis Nicolson (21 September 1917 – 6 October 1968) was a British mathematician most known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson scheme together with John Crank.

She was born Phyllis Lockett in Macclesfield and went to Stockport High School for Girls. She graduated from Manchester University with a B.Sc. in 1938, M.Sc. in 1939 and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1946. She was a research student from 1945-46 and research fellow from 1946-49 at Girton College, Cambridge. She married Malcolm Nicolson, also a physicist, in 1942; after his accidental death in 1951 she married Malcolm McCaig.^[1] She died in Sheffield.

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Persondata
Name	Nicolson, Phyllis
Alternative names
Short description	Mathematician
Date of birth	21 September 1917
Place of birth	Macclesfield, England
Date of death	6 October 1968
Place of death	Sheffield, England

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