claim: The University of Leicester discovered remains in 2012.
evidence: Albert Victor Backlund -LRB- January 11 , 1845 -- February 23 , 1922 -RRB- was a Swedish mathematician and physicist .. Swedish. Sweden. mathematician. mathematician. physicist. physicist. He was a professor at Lund University and its rector from 1907 to 1909 .. Lund. Lund. professor. professor. Lund University. Lund University. rector. Rector ( academia ). He was born in Malmohus County , now Skane County , in southern Sweden and became a student at the nearby University of Lund in 1861 .. Malmohus County. Malmohus County. Skane County. Skane County. Lund. Lund. University of Lund. University of Lund. In 1864 he started to work for the observatory , and received his Ph.D. in 1868 working on methods to obtain the latitude of a place by astronomical observations .. observatory. observatory. latitude. latitude. He was awarded the title of associate professor in Mechanics and Mathematical Physics in 1878 , and elected Fellow of the Swedish Academy of Science in 1888 .. Swedish. Sweden. professor. professor. associate professor. associate professor. Mathematical Physics. Mathematical Physics. Swedish Academy of Science. Swedish Academy of Science. In 1897 he became a full professor .. professor. professor. In 1874 he was awarded a travel grant to study abroad for six months .. He went to the universities at Leipzig and Erlangen to work with Felix Klein and Ferdinand von Lindemann .. Leipzig. Leipzig. Erlangen. Erlangen. Felix Klein. Felix Klein. Ferdinand von Lindemann. Ferdinand von Lindemann. His most important work was in the field of transformations pioneered by Sophus Lie .. Sophus Lie. Sophus Lie. He improved greatly the understanding of contact transformations and introduced a new second class transformation , now known as auto-Backlund transformation .. auto-Backlund transformation. Backlund transform