John Tobias Stafford (born 2 June 1951) is a British mathematician and Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester. [1]
He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1972 and completed his PhD at the University of Leeds in 1976. [2]
Stafford was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 1980. He received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2007, and in 2013 was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [1]