George F. D. Duff

This article is about the Canadian mathematician.. For the British naval officer, see George Duff.
George F. D. Duff
Born (1926-07-28)July 28, 1926
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died March 2, 2001(2001-03-02) (aged 74)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Residence Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Citizenship Canadian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Toronto
Alma mater University of Toronto
Princeton University
Doctoral advisor Solomon Lefschetz
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

George Francis Denton Duff (July 29, 1926 – March 2, 2001) was a Canadian mathematician who did research in partial differential equations and wave phenomena. He took an interest in harnessing the extraordinarily large tides in the Bay of Fundy for generating electricity.

Duff was a PhD student of Solomon Lefschetz at Princeton University. He became a professor at the University of Toronto in 1952. There, he supervised the Ph.D. theses of 13 students and served as chair of the Mathematics Department from 1968 to 1975.

Duff was an Invited Plenary speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver in1974.

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