imperialcollege (Instagram)sourcephoto“We arrived with nothing, and yet since then we have given this country a dozen Nobel prizes. You just have to give people a chance.” Professor Walter Hayman, a Senior Research Investigator in the College's Department of Mathematics, was born in Cologne in 1926 to parents of Jewish ancestry. In 1938, he was sent to the UK alone aged 12, and managed to persuade his host to invite his parents over, saving them from deportation to a concentration camp. Professor Hayman won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge, going on to hold academic roles there and at the University of Exeter. He joined Imperial in 1956 as Professor of Pure Mathematics, and the same year was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society. The author of over 200 scientific papers, Professor Hayman’s research has spanned almost all areas of complex analysis, including fundamental work on the theory of functions.
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