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Apr 28, 1906 Berlin Died on 23 Dec 1989 (aged 83)
Hungarian-born British mathematician
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About Richard Rado
- Richard Rado FRS (28 April 1906 – 23 December 1989) was a German-born British mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory.
- He was Jewish and left Germany to escape Nazi persecution.
- He earned two Ph.D.s: in 1933 from the University of Berlin, and in 1935 from the University of Cambridge.
- He was interviewed in Berlin by Lord Cherwell for a scholarship given by the chemist Sir Robert Mond which provided financial support to study at Cambridge.
- After he was awarded the scholarship, Rado and his wife left for the UK in 1933.
- He was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Reading in 1954 and remained there until he retired in 1971.
