After completing his BA at the University of Oxford,[1] Peter Scott received his PhD in 1969 from the University of Warwick under Brian Joseph Sanderson, with thesis Some Problems in Topology.
with finitely generated fundamental group has a compact core
is a compact submanifold such that inclusion induces a homotopy equivalence between
is called a Scott compact core of the manifold
In 1986, he was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize by the London Mathematical Society.
[1] In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.