Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead studied at Trinity College, Sherborne School and University of Cambridge. J. Robert Oppenheimer is recorded as having studied under Alfred North Whitehead. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is logic, mathematics and philosophy of science.

Employment is recorded with Harvard University, Imperial College London and University of Cambridge. Membership is recorded of Royal Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Philosophical Society.

Works named in the authority record are Principia Mathematica, Process and Reality, The Concept of Nature (1920), Whitehead's theory of gravitation, Whitehead's point-free geometry and A Treatise on Universal Algebra.

Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the Royal Society, honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, honorary doctor of Harvard University and Sylvester Medal.