John Lemmon
Edward John Lemmon (1 June 1930 – 29 July 1966) was a logician and philosopher born in Sheffield, England. He is most well known for his work on modal logic, particularly his joint text with Dana Scott published posthumously (Lemmon and Scott, 1977).
Lemmon attended King Edward VII School in Sheffield until 1947, before reading Literae humaniores at Magdalen College, Oxford as an undergraduate, and was appointed Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford in 1957. In 1963, following a visiting professorship in Texas, Lemmon emigrated to the United States to lecture at the Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University). Lemmon died from heart failure whilst climbing.
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