George W. Whitehead

Details

Instance of

human

Born

2 August 1918

Died

12 April 2004

Place of birth

Bloomington

Sex or gender

male

Given name

George

Family name

Whitehead

Spouse

Kay Whitehead

Field of work

topology

Occupation

mathematician, topologist, university teacher

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship

doctoral advisor

Norman Steenrod

doctoral student

John Coleman Moore, Robert Aumann, Edgar H. Brown, Arthur Herbert Copeland, Jr., Peter Joseph Welcher, Robert Einsohn Mosher, Joel Marc Cohen, Daniel Stephen Kahn, Alan Jay Goldstein, John Evans Kimber, Jr., Michael Ginsburg, Jacques Labelle

educated at

University of Chicago

employer

Brown University, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University

member of

National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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