Abstract

This tribute consists of an appreciation from 1996, some further thoughts, and a list of Nash-Williams' publications.

An appreciation written on his retirement in 1996

I arrived in Aberdeen in 1965 to start my academic career as an assistant lecturer. I had become interested in graph theory and in particular in a series of papers with such resonant titles as

So it is with pleasure that I am writing this appreciation of Professor Nash-Williams in the Quincentennial Year of the University of Aberdeen.

In 1967, after some ten years at Aberdeen, Nash-Williams moved to the University of Waterloo, returning to Aberdeen as Professor of Mathematics in 1972. In 1975 he took up a Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Reading where he joined a flourishing group of combinatorialists which included Richard Rado (then recently retired), David Day kin and Anthony Hilton. He has remained at Reading ever since, apart from a year in West Virginia and frequent visits to Waterloo.

It is not my intention to give a full appreciation of Nash-Williams' contribution to graph theory. How could I? This will, I hope, be done elsewhere with a complete edition of his papers. I shall content myself with a few random remarks on his work.