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John Charles Fields

1863 to 1932 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for John Charles Fields across 3 places, from 1880. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

John Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC (May 14, 1863 – August 9, 1932) was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where John Charles Fields was documented, and when

1880 to 1884period
Hamilton, Ontarioattested “Born in Hamilton, Canada West, to a leather shop owner, Fields graduated from Hamilton Collegiate Institute in 1880 and the University of Toronto in 1884 before leaving for the United States to study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltim…” source: Wikipedia: John Charles Fields
1880 to 1884period
Johns Hopkins Universityattested “Born in Hamilton, Canada West, to a leather shop owner, Fields graduated from Hamilton Collegiate Institute in 1880 and the University of Toronto in 1884 before leaving for the United States to study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltim…” source: Wikipedia: John Charles Fields
1880 to 1884period
Baltimore, Marylandattested “Born in Hamilton, Canada West, to a leather shop owner, Fields graduated from Hamilton Collegiate Institute in 1880 and the University of Toronto in 1884 before leaving for the United States to study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltim…” source: Wikipedia: John Charles Fields

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Places John Charles Fields is documented in

Johns Hopkins University1 presence · 1880
Baltimore, Maryland1 presence · 1880
Hamilton, Ontario1 presence · 1880

Other places tied to John Charles Fields in the record

In each of these, a source puts John Charles Fields and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that John Charles Fields was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

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University of Torontomentioned “Fields returned to Canada in 1902 to lecture at the University of Toronto.” source: Wikipedia: John Charles Fields
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Canadamentioned “Fields returned to Canada in 1902 to lecture at the University of Toronto.” source: Wikipedia: John Charles Fields
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Torontomentioned “He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1912 at Cambridge, in 1924 at Toronto, and in 1928 at Bologna.” source: Wikipedia: John Charles Fields
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Cambridgementioned “He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1912 at Cambridge, in 1924 at Toronto, and in 1928 at Bologna.” source: Wikipedia: John Charles Fields
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Bolognamentioned “He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1912 at Cambridge, in 1924 at Toronto, and in 1928 at Bologna.” source: Wikipedia: John Charles Fields

Documented at the same place, the same year

Josiah Willard GibbsBaltimore, Maryland · 1880Thorstein VeblenBaltimore, Maryland · 1880H. L. MenckenBaltimore, Maryland · 1880

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Sources

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