Professor Sir David James Wallace, CBE, FRS, DL is the Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge and master of Churchill College, Cambridge in October 2006.

Wallace grew up in Hawick, Borders, Scotland and went to the University of Edinburgh where he earned a degree in Mathematical Physics and a PhD in Elementary Particle Theory. After postdoctoral research work at Princeton University, Wallace became a physics lecturer at the University of Southampton in 1972.

In 1979 he became Tait Professor of Mathematical Physics at Edinburgh. He became Director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre and in 1996 he was awarded the CBE?? for his computing work.

From 1994 to January 2006 he was the Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University. Wallace has also been President of the Institute of Physics, Vice President of the Royal Society and Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire.

On 27 June 2005, it was announced that Wallace will become Director of the Isaac Newton Institute and the second NM Rothschild & Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences at University of Cambridge, starting October 2006.

He has a wife, Elizabeth and a daughter, Sara. He enjoys mycophagy.

External links

• Cam.ac.uk: "Master Appointed to Churchill College
• Number-10.gov.uk: "Master Of Churchill College, Cambridge"
• Archive Version of Loughbourgh University: Vice Chancellor's Office
• University of Cambridge: "Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences appointed"
• Institute of Physics: "Birthday Knighthood for IoP president David Wallace"

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