Sir Harry Raymond Pitt FRS was a British mathematician.
10 Facts About Harry Pitt
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Harry Pitt attended King Edward's School, Stourbridge, before going up to Peterhouse, Cambridge.
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Harry Pitt was awarded a PhD by Cambridge University in 1938 for research on Tauberian theorems, giving him a long-term interest in probability theory.
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In 1942 Pitt went to work in London at the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Aircraft Production.
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In 1945 Harry Pitt was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Queen's University of Belfast.
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In 1964 Harry Pitt was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading, in which post he remained until 1978.
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Harry Pitt was at Reading University during the student rebellion of 1968.
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Between 1975 and 1978 Harry Pitt served as chairman of the Universities Central Council on Admissions, and between 1984 and 1985 he was President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the association of practising mathematicians.
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Harry Pitt was awarded honorary degrees by the universities of Aberdeen, Nottingham, Reading, and Belfast.
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Harry Pitt was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1957 and was knighted in 1978.