Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter

Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter

CC FRS FRSC
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter; CC FRS FRSC
Born	9 February 1907; London, England
Died	31 March 2003 (aged 96); Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (B.A., 1929; Ph.D., 1931)
Known for	Coxeter element; Coxeter functor; Coxeter graph; Coxeter group; Coxeter matroid; Coxeter notation; Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles; Coxeter–Dynkin diagram; Coxeter–Todd lattice; Boerdijk–Coxeter helix; Goldberg–Coxeter construction; Todd–Coxeter algorithm*; Tutte–Coxeter graph; LCF notation; Regular skew apeirohedra
Spouse(s)	Hendrina, died in 1999
Children	a daughter, Susan Thomas, and a son, Edgar
Awards	Smith's Prize (1931); Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1949); FPS (1950); Jeffery–Williams Prize (1973); CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (1995); Sylvester Medal (1997);
	Scientific career
Fields	Geometry
Institutions	University of Toronto
Doctoral advisor	H. F. Baker
Doctoral students	W. G. Brown; Norman Johnson;

Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter CC FRS FRSC (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) was a British-Canadian geometer and mathematician.

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