James H. Wilkinson

James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a British expert in the field of numerical analysis. His name is used for the "James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing" and "J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software" given by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Career.
He transferred to the National Physical Laboratory in 1946, where he worked with Alan Turing. Later, Wilkinson's interests took him into numerical analysis, where he discovered many great algorithms.