Hartree, Douglas Rayner

Douglas Rayner Hartree (1897-1958). Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (1898-1974). Clemens C. J. Roothaan (1918- ). 

C. Eroese Eischer, Douglas Rayner Hartree His life in science and computing. World Scientific Publishing, New Jersey, 2003. 

Fig. 1.17 (a) Vladimir A. Fock (Courtesy of the late Lev Vilkov) (b) Douglas R. Haitree (Fischer CF (2004) Douglas Rayner Hartree His life in science and computing. World Scientific, Singapore)... 

Douglas Rayner Hartree "A Computing and Classifying Physicist"... 

Douglas Rayner Hartree (left) and Arthur Porter (right) viewing the Meccano differential analyzer in 1935. 

William Hartree, father of Douglas Rayner Hartree, with a spiral and a linear shde rule, late 1930s. Source AIP Emlho Segre Visual Archives. 

Douglas Rayner Hartree, 1897-1958, was Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester and was later Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University. He became a computer pioneer, working with ENIAC, one of the early electronic computers. Shortly after World War II he said that computers would have as great an effect on civilization as would nuclear energy. 

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