Category:Hassler Whitney (mathematician)

**Hassler Whitney**
	American mathematician (1907–1989)
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Name in native language	Hassler Whitney;
Date of birth	23 March 1907; New York City
Date of death	10 May 1989; Princeton
Place of burial	Dent Blanche (46°20′39.26″N 7°15′36.83″E, ash);
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	Harvard University (1928–1932); Yale University (–1928);
Doctoral advisor	George David Birkhoff;
Doctoral student	Herbert Robbins (1938); Paul Olum (1947); James Eells (1954); Wilfred Kaplan (1939); Franklin Haimo (1947); Richard Eliot Chamberlin (1950); Melcher Prince Fobes (1948); James Harold Wolfe, Jr. (1948);
Occupation	mathematician; university teacher;
Employer	Institute for Advanced Study (1952–1977); Harvard University (1930–1952); Applied Mathematics Panel (1943–1945);
Member of	National Academy of Sciences (1945–); American Philosophical Society; Swiss Alpine Club;
Position held	chairperson (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1979–1982);
Field of work	topology; graph theory; singularity theory;
Family	Whitney family;
Father	Edward Baldwin Whitney;
Mother	Josepha Newcomb Whitney;
Child	Sally W. Thurston; James Newcomb Whitney;
Relative	William Dwight Whitney (paternal grandfather); Simon Newcomb (maternal grandfather); Josiah Whitney (granduncle); Emily Henrietta Whitney (aunt); Marian Parker Whitney (aunt);
Notable work	Whitney embedding theorem; Whitney extension theorem; Whitney immersion theorem; Whitney conditions; travelling salesperson problem; Whitney inequality; Loomis–Whitney inequality; Stiefel–Whitney class; Whitney topologies; Whitney disk; Whitney umbrella; Whitney covering lemma; Whitney's planarity criterion; regular homotopy;
Award received	National Medal of Science (1976); Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1982); Leroy P. Steele Prize (1985); Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1969);
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	Q742072; ISNI: 0000000110631584; VIAF ID: 54212448; GND ID: 11904045X; Library of Congress authority ID: n84801963; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12299006w; IdRef ID: 031851894; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 121601269; NUKAT ID: n97058792; J9U ID: 987007271376305171; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 4956
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