Theres a mathematician that was born on October 16 1879 in England and died on October 1 1921 in England. Suffered from severe disabilities. Did poorly in his degree and settled for a pass degree. Was awarded the Allen scholarship for research in 1904. He also applied logic to Physics in papers such as On Some Points in the Foundation of Mathematical Physics (1908). Who is it? Please get back to ASAP.

A great web site is The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive The Biographies index works well for this kind of search.