H. F. Baker

Professor Henry Baker
Professor Henry Baker
	Henry Frederick Baker (1866-1956)
Born	Henry Frederick Baker; 3 July 1866; Cambridge, England
Died	17 March 1956 (aged 89); Cambridge, England
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge
Awards	Smith's Prize (1889); FRS (1898); Sylvester Medal (1910); De Morgan Medal (1905);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician; Geometry;
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Cayley
Doctoral students	Jacob Bronowski; Thomas M. Cherry; H. S. M. Coxeter; Yusuke Hagihara; Edwin Arthur Maxwell; Louis J. Mordell; Daniel Pedoe; Thomas Gerald Room; John A. Todd;

Henry Frederick Baker FRS FRSE (3 July 1866 – 17 March 1956) was a British mathematician, working mainly in algebraic geometry, but also remembered for contributions to partial differential equations (related to what would become known as solitons), and Lie groups.

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