Daniel Edwin Rutherford (1906 - 1966)

* 4 July 1906, † 9 November 1966

Daniel Edwin Rutherford was born on 4 July 1906 in Stirling, Scotland. Dan Rutherford was appointed to be the first Gregory Professor of Applied Mathematics at St Andrews in 1964. In spite of his title, he was primarily a pure mathematician with an interest in algebra. Daniel Edwin Rutherford died on 9 November 1966 in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.