What type of details about thomas willmore  can be gathered from the following bio?  Bio: thomas james willmore -lrb- 16 april 1919 -- 20 february 2005 -rrb- was an english geometer . he is best known for his work on riemannian 3-space and harmonic spaces . willmore studied at king 's college london . after his graduation in 1939 , he was appointed as a lecturer , but the onset of world war ii led him to working as a scientific officer at raf cardington , working mainly on barrage balloon defences . during the war , he found the time to write his phd on relativistic cosmology , and gained his phd on `` clock regraduations and general relativity '' as an external student of the university of london in 1943 -lsb- http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/record=b2986152~s16] . in 1946 , he was given a lectureship at the university of durham . he wrote an influential book with ag walker and hs ruse entitled `` harmonic spaces '' in 1953 . he left durham in 1954 for the university of liverpool to join walker , after a supposed dispute between willmore and a durham colleague who refused to order german textbooks after being wounded in world war i . in 1965 , willmore returned to durham , where he was appointed professor of pure mathematics . he was elected vice president of the london mathematical society in 1977 , a post he held for two years . during that time , he was elected a member of the royal academies for science and the arts of belgium . willmore retired from durham in 1984 after holding the position of the head of the department of mathematical sciences on three separate occasions , covering most of his professorship there . he was given an honorary degree from the open university in 1994 .
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