Prof C T C Wall, FRS

Career: fell Trinity Coll Cambridge 1959-64, Harkness fell 1960-61, univ reader and fell St Catherine's Coll Oxford 1964-65, prof of pure mathematics Univ of Liverpool 1965-99, Royal Soc Leverhulme visiting prof Mexico 1967, sr fell SERC 1983-88, sr fell Univ of Liverpool 1999-2003; treas: Wirral area SDP 1985-88, West Wirral Lib Dems 1988-, Hoylake Chamber Concert Soc 2000-; fell Cambridge Philosophical Soc 1958-, memb American Mathematical Soc 1961-, pres London Mathematical Soc 1978-80 (memb 1961-, memb Cncl 1973-80 and 1992-96); foreign memb Royal Danish Acad 1990-; FRS (memb Cncl 1974-76)

Books and Publications: Surgery on Compact Manifolds (1970), A Geometric Introduction to Topology (1970), The Geometry of Topological Stability (with Andrew du Plessis, 1995), Singular Points of Plane Curves (2004)