Editing Christopher Zeeman (section)

{{Short description|British mathematician (1925–2016)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| honorific_prefix  = Sir
| image             = Christopher Zeeman.jpeg
| honorific_suffix  = [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]
| caption           = Zeeman (in foreground) in 1980
| birth_name        = Erik Christopher Zeeman
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1925|2|4|df=y}}
| birth_place       = Japan
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2016|2|13|1925|2|4|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Woodstock, Oxfordshire|Woodstock]], England
| citizenship       = British
| nationality       = 
| ethnicity         = 
| field             = Mathematics
| work_institutions = [[University of Cambridge]] <br /> [[University of Warwick]] <br />[[University of Oxford]] <br /> [[Gresham College]]
| alma_mater        = [[Christ's College, Cambridge]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Shaun Wylie]]
| doctoral_students = [[Peter Buneman]] <br /> [[David B. A. Epstein|David Epstein]] <br /> [[Jenny Harrison]] <br /> [[Ray Lickorish]] <br />[[Tim Poston]] <br /> [[Colin P. Rourke|Colin Rourke]] <br /> [[David Trotman]] <br /> [[C. T. C. Wall|Terry Wall]] <br /> [[Charlotte Watts]]
| known_for         = [[Catastrophe theory]]<br />[[Geometric topology]]<br />[[Singularity theory]]<br/>[[Zeeman conjecture]]<br/>[[Zeeman's comparison theorem]]<br/>[[Stallings–Zeeman theorem]]
| thesis_title      = Dihomology
| thesis_year       = 1955
| thesis_url        = 
| prizes            = [[Senior Whitehead Prize]] (1982)<br />[[Michael Faraday Prize|Faraday Medal]] (1988)<br />[[:Category:David Crighton medalists|David Crighton Medal]] (2006)
| religion          = 
| footnotes         = [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]
}}

'''Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rand |first=David A. |date=2022 |title=Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman. 4 February 1925—13 February 2016 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2022.0012 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=73|pages=521–547 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2022.0012 |s2cid=251447255 |doi-access=free }}</ref> (4 February 1925 – 13 February 2016), was a British mathematician,<ref name="oxford-times">{{cite news| url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/obits/obituaries/14301547.Obituary_____Remarkable____maths_professor_Sir_Christopher_Zeeman_remembered/?ref=rss | title=Obituary: 'Remarkable' maths professor Sir Christopher Zeeman remembered [Sir Christopher Zeeman: Mathematics professor and former college principal] | first=Megan | last=Archer | newspaper=[[Oxford Times]] | page=86 | date=25 February 2016 | accessdate=8 March 2016 }}</ref> known for his work in [[geometric topology]] and [[singularity theory]].