Burchnall

Joseph Langley Burchnall

Born: 1892 in Whichford, Warwickshire, England
Died: 1975 in Durham, England

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Joseph Burchnall was educated at Oxford and joined the army in 1914 serving in France and Belgium and eventually was wounded and lost a leg in 1918. Appointed to Durham in 1919 he remained there for the rest of his career. He wrote on differential equations, hypergeometric functions and Bessel functions.

References:

  1. E F Baxter, S Holgate and A Erdélyi, Joseph Langley Burchnall, Bull. London Math. Soc. 10 (1978), 111-115.
  2. Obituary, Yearbook of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Session 1974-75 (1976), 30-33.
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