Gordon Douglas James, 1945-2020 OBITUARY

Gordon James was born in Newcastle-upon-Type on 31 December 1945. He completed his PhD under John Thompson and was the Director of Studies in Pure Mathematics at Cambridge during 1972-1984. In 1985, Gordon moved to Imperial College, London, where he was promoted to Professor in 1989. Gordon was one of the leading experts on the representation theory of the symmetric groups, general linear groups, Hecke algebras and Schur algebras. In addition to his research papers, he wrote a series of influential textbooks in these fields. He is survived by his wife Mary, his children Elizabeth and William, five grandchildren and many very beautiful theorems.