Peter Woit

Peter Woit

male
Peter Woit is a mathematical physicist at Columbia University. He obtained his PhD in particle theory from Princeton University in 1985, followed...

Edward Kasner

male, deceased (1955)
Edward Kasner, (City College of New York 1897; Columbia University M.A., 1897; Columbia University Ph.D., 1900), who studied under Cassius Jackson...

Richard Hamilton

male, 66 years old
Richard Streit Hamilton is professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University. Robert Gunning...

John Morgan

male
John Willard Morgan is an American mathematician, well-known for his contributions to topology and geometry. He is currently Professor and Chair of...
Serge Lang

Serge Lang

male, deceased (2005)
Serge Lang was a French-born American mathematician. He was known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the...
John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...
Hyman Bass

Hyman Bass

male, 77 years old
Hyman Bass (b. 1932) is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra. From 1959-1998 he was Professor in the Mathematics Department at...
Samuel Eilenberg

Samuel Eilenberg

male, deceased (1998)
Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York, USA where he had spent much...
Leon M. Lederman

Leon M. Lederman

male, 87 years old
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his...
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