Louis Joel Mordell was an American-born British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, United States, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction. Wikipedia
Born: January 28, 1888, Philadelphia, PA
Died: March 12, 1972 (age 84 years), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, Smith's Prize (1912), De Morgan Medal (1941), and more
Fields: Mathematics