Joseph Wedderburn

Joseph Wedderburn
Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn (1882–1948)
Born	(1882-02-02)2 February 1882 Forfar, Angus, Scotland
Died	9 October 1948(1948-10-09) (aged 66) Princeton, New Jersey, US
Nationality	British
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Known for	Wedderburn-Etherington number Artin–Wedderburn theorem
Awards	MacDougall-Brisbane Gold Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	George Chrystal
Doctoral students	Merrill Flood Nathan Jacobson Ernst Snapper

Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS (2 February 1882 – 9 October 1948) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. He also worked on group theory and matrix algebra.^[2][3]

His younger brother was the lawyer Ernest Wedderburn.