George F. D. Duff

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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
DiedMarch 2, 2001(2001-03-02) (aged 74)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Princeton University
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Doctoral advisorSolomon Lefschetz

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.[1]

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