Graham Allan

Graham Robert Allan ( born August 13, 1936 in Southgate, † August 9, 2007 in Cambridge ) was a British mathematician who worked on analysis and special Banach algebras.

Allan studied from 1954 interrupted by two years of military service in a radar station at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate in 1963 at Frank Smithies ( Contributions to the theory of locally convex spaces ). After that, he was a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and in 1967 Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. From 1970 he was professor at the University of Leeds. In 1978 he returned to the lower position as a lecturer to Cambridge, once because he did not like all the administrative work and also because he was there more stimulated by the students. In 1980 he became Reader in 1985 and Director of Studies of Churchill College, he was its vice-president from 1990 to 1993. In 2003, he went into retirement.

In 1969 he was awarded the Junior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society.