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Richard Buckingham was born on 17 July, 1911 in Norwich, is an A british computer scientist. Discover Richard Buckingham's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 17 July, 1911
Birthday 17 July
Birthplace Norwich
Date of death 1994
Died Place Portsmouth
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1851

The same year, he took up a new post as Senior 1851 Exhibitioner at University College, London, before serving in the Royal Navy's Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington, and in the Mine Design Department at Havant, from 1940 to 1945.

1911

Richard Arthur Buckingham FBCS FRSA (17 July 1911 – 13 August 1994) was an English particle physicist, mathematician and computer scientist long on the staff of the University of London.

He was also a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Arts and chaired the Technical Committee for Education (TC3) of the International Federation for Information Processing.

He was also the originator of the Buckingham potential formula.

Buckingham was the son of George Herbert Buckingham, by his marriage to Alice Mary Watson King.

1935

He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1935, PhD 1937).

His thesis on "Some problems arising from the interactions of atoms with atoms, electrons and radiation" was done under Ralph H. Fowler.

After Cambridge, Buckingham's first academic post was at Queen's University, Belfast, where he was an assistant lecturer in Mathematical Physics from 1935 to 1938.

1938

In 1938 he published a paper titled 'The classical equation of state of gaseous Helium, Neon and Argon', which proposed a formula which became known as the Buckingham potential.

1939

In 1939 Buckingham married Christina O'Brien, and they had one son and two daughters.

1945

After the Second World War, he became an academic of University College London, where he was a lecturer in Mathematics (1945–1950), a lecturer in Physics (1950–1951), and a Reader in Physics (1951–1957).

1957

From 1957 to 1973 he was Director of the University of London's Computer Unit, which during his tenure was renamed as the Institute of Computer Science.

1962

In 1962 the International Federation for Information Processing created a new Technical Committee for Education called TC3, the first ever international body dealing with computing and education, and in 1963 Buckingham was appointed to chair it.

He commented "It was inevitable that education should come to the fore early in the development of IFIP".

1963

In 1963 Buckingham was appointed as Professor of Computing Science, and in 1974 as Professor of Computer Education, at Birkbeck College, London.

1964

The first meeting took place in February 1964, in Paris.

1978

On his retirement in 1978 he received the title of Professor Emeritus.

1994

He died on 13 August 1994 in West Sussex.