Douglas Geoffrey Northcott, FRS (31 December 1916 – 8 April 2005)[1][2] was a British mathematician who worked on ideal theory.
[1] He was educated in London, then at Christ's Hospital and St John's College, Cambridge, where he started research under the supervision of G.H.
In analogy to this result, a set of algebraic numbers is said to satisfy the Northcott property if there are only finitely many elements of bounded height.
In 1954, Douglas Northcott and David Rees introduced in a joint paper[8] the Northcott-Rees theory of reductions and integral closures, which has subsequently been influential in commutative algebra.
[9] Northcott was awarded the London Mathematical Society Junior Berwick Prize in 1953 and served as LMS Vice-President during 1968-69.