Norman Steenrod

Details

Instance of

human

Born

22 April 1910

Died

14 October 1971

Place of birth

Dayton

Place of death

Princeton

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Norman

Field of work

topology

Occupation

mathematician, university teacher

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship

academic thesis

Universal Homology Groups

birth name

Norman Earl Steenrod

described by source

Steenrod, Norman Earl (1910-1971), mathematician

doctoral advisor

Solomon Lefschetz

doctoral student

Edwin Spanier, George W. Whitehead, P. Emery Thomas, Sufiàn Yunis Husseini, Wu-Chung Hsiang, Paul A. Schweitzer, Peter J. Freyd, Samuel Gitler Hammer, José Ádem, Franklin P. Peterson, Samuel L. Gulden, Jerome Levine

educated at

Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Michigan, Miami University

employer

Princeton University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Princeton University

Erdős number

3

languages spoken, written or signed

English

member of

National Academy of Sciences

notable work

Myers–Steenrod theorem, Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms, Steenrod algebra, Dual Steenrod algebra, Steenrod homology, Steenrod problem

place of burial

Valhalla Cemetery

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