Graham Higman

Graham Higman
Graham Higman
Born	Graham Higman; 19 January 1917; Louth, Lincolnshire, England
Died	8 April 2008 (aged 91); Oxford, England
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Known for	Higman group ; Higman's embedding theorem ; Higman's lemma ; HNN extension; Higman–Sims group ; Hall–Higman theorem
Awards	Senior Berwick Prize (1962); LMS De Morgan Medal (1974); Sylvester Medal (1979)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Group theory
Institutions	University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	J. H. C. Whitehead
Doctoral students	Jonathan Lazare Alperin; Rosemary A. Bailey; Marston Conder; John Mackintosh Howie; Peter M. Neumann; Sheila Oates Williams;

Graham Higman FRS (19 January 1917 – 8 April 2008) was a prominent English mathematician known for his contributions to group theory.

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