Keith William Morton
-a mathematician
His Life
He began his schooling at Hadleigh Bridge Street Primary in 1935.He spent 5 years at this school before going to Sudbery Grammar School in 1940. This was a boy's grammar school founded in 1491. In 1948 Morton Completed his secondary school (middle school) and went to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from 1948. After he finished the class, Morton went to Corpus Christi Collage, Oxford, where he studied more mathematics.
He got his B.A. in 1952 and began working in the Theoretical Physics Division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. He worked on Monte Carlo methods for nuclear criticality and composed some papers with John Michael Hammersley.
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-Studied plasma physics
-Still alive
Published the single-authored paper "A generalisation of the antithetic variate technique for evaluating integrals" in 1957
-Was awarded a Ph.D. by New York University in 1964 for his thesis "Finite Amplitude Compression Waves in a Collision-Free Plasma."
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