Douglas Hartree

British mathematician and physicist (1897-1958) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 60

Douglas Rayner Hartree was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree-Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyser using Meccano.

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