Biography:Sam Lilley
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Short description: Northern Irish Educationalist
Samuel Lilley (25 June 1914, Belfast – 1987) was an educationalist, historian of science and broadcaster active in the United Kingdom following the Second World War.[1]
Sam attended the Belfast Academical Institution followed by Queen's University, Belfast. In 1935 he gained a first class honours degree here in Mathematics and mathematical Physics in 1935. He remained there gaining an M.Sc. in algebraic geometry before moving to St John's College, Cambridge, where he gained a Ph.D. in 1939.[2]
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Further reading
- Vidar Enebakk (2009). "Lilley Revisited: Or Science and Society in the Twentieth Century". The British Journal for the History of Science 42 (4): 563–593. doi:10.1017/S0007087409002246.
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