Ralph Fox

Details

Instance of

human

Born

24 March 1913

Died

23 December 1973

Place of birth

Morrisville

Place of death

Philadelphia

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Ralph

Family name

Fox

Field of work

topology, knot theory, differential topology

Occupation

mathematician, topologist, university teacher

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship

academic thesis

On the Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category

different from

Ralph Winston Fox

doctoral advisor

Solomon Lefschetz

doctoral student

Harold W. Kuhn, Barry Mazur, Lee Neuwirth, Alan J. Goldman, Herman R. Gluck, Neville Francis Smythe, Samuel J. Lomonaco Jr., Francisco Javier González-Acuña, Wilbur Carrington Whitten, Deborah Louise Goldsmith (Kauffman), Charles Herbert Giffen, Albert Laurence Blakers

educated at

Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College

employer

Princeton University, Syracuse University, Institute for Advanced Study

Erdős number

3

languages spoken, written or signed

English

notable work

Fox n-coloring

place of burial

Buckingham Friends Cemetery

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