Alexander Durie Russell

Alexander Durie Russell FRSE FRAS (1872–1955) was a 20th-century Scottish mathematician, schoolmaster and amateur astronomer. He was President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1915/16.

Life

He was born in Edinburgh on 22 July 1872, the son of Janet Durie and her husband, Thomas Russell, a grocer and spirit dealer.[1] The family lived at 19 Graham Street and had a shop at 42 West Richmond Street in the city's South Side.[2] Russell was educated at George Heriot's School then studied mathematics and natural philosophy (physics) at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1896. While at University he was awarded a Neil Arnott Scholarship in Experimental Physics, and studied chemistry under Alexander Crum Brown, mathematics with George Chrystal and physics with Peter Guthrie Tait.[1]

On graduating he became a Demonstrator in physics at the University. He then taught, first at Morelands School in Edinburgh then in the summer of 1897 went to Stranraer High School.[3] In 1899 he joined Falkirk High School where he stayed for the rest of his career.[1]

In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Peddie, John Brown Clark, Robert Traill Omond, and Cargill Gilston Knott.[4]

He retired in 1937 and died on 20 January 1955.[3]

Family

He was married.

References
  1. "Alexander Durie Russell (1872-1955)". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  2. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1872
  3. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0950184300000355
  4. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2018.


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