Melvin Hochster

Melvin Hochster

male
Harvard University, homological algebra, Cohen-Macaulay ring, Cole Prize, William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, invariant theory…PutnamFellows, Putnam Fellow
Melvin Hochster is an eminent American mathematician, regarded as one of the leading commutative algebraists active today. He is currently the Jack...
Stephen L. Adler

Stephen L. Adler

male, 70 years old
Putnam Fellow, Harvard University, Field theory, PutnamFellows, Institute for Advanced Study, Ph.D.
Stephen L. Adler (b. 1939 in New York City) is an American physicist specializing in elementary particles and field theory. He received an A.B....

Jeffrey Lagarias

male (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States)
University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mathematician, computer scientist, Number theorist, scientist at Bell Labs…Putnam Fellow, PutnamFellows, William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
Jeffrey C. Lagarias is a professor at the University of Michigan. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1970. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from...

Arthur P. Dempster

male
Harvard University, Dempster-Shafer, Dempster-Shafer Calculus, Arthur Pentland Dempster, William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, PutnamFellows…Putnam Fellow
Arthur Pentland Dempster is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department...

William Nierenberg

male, deceased (2000)
Putnam Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, American, physicist, PutnamFellows, William Aaron Nierenberg
William Aaron Nierenberg (1919 - 2000) was an American physicist and the director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through...

Roger Howe

male
Putnam Fellow, Harvard University, United States National Academy of Sciences, University of California, Berkeley alumni, PutnamFellows, representation theory…William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
Roger Evans Howe is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. He is well-known for his contributions to Representation...
George Mackey

George Mackey

male, deceased (2006)
Putnam Fellow, Doctor of Philosophy, Landon T. Clay, Mathematical analyst, Harvard University alumni, Harvard University faculty…PutnamFellows
George Whitelaw Mackey (born February 1, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri, died March 15, 2006 in Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician....

Robert Mills

male, deceased (1999)
Putnam Fellow, brookhaven national laboratory, princeton, tensor, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Columbia College…PutnamFellows, William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
Robert L. Mills (April 15, 1927 - October 27, 1999) was a physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body...
Don Zagier

Don Zagier

male, 58 years old
complex L-series, elliptic curve, L-function, Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Erdős number 2, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics…Putnam Fellow, PutnamFellows
Don Bernhard Zagier is a German mathematician. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany,...
Richard Schroeppel

Richard Schroeppel

male, 61 years old
Putnam Fellow, mathematician, Richard C. Schroeppel, elliptic curves, Magic squares, Advanced Encryption Standard…PutnamFellows
Richard C. Schroeppel is an American mathematician born in Illinois. His research has included magic squares, elliptic curves, and cryptography. In...