Biographical Notes

Lars Valerian Ahlfors—Born in Helsingfors, Finland, April 18, 1907. PhD, 1928, Helsinki University. Postdoctoral appointments: Eidgenösische Technische Hochschule, Zürich; Aaboe Academy, Turku. Positions held: Harvard University, 1935–38; University of Helsinki, 1938–44; University of Zürich, 1945–46, 1977; Harvard University, 1946–77. Honors: Fields Medal, 1936; Wolf Prize, 1981; Leroy P. Steele Prize, AMS, 1982. Died in Pittsfield, MA, October 11, 1996.

Tom M. Apostol—Born in Helper, UT, August 20, 1923. BS, 1944, MS, 1946, University of Washington; PhD, 1948, University of California, Berkeley. Positions held: University of California, Berkeley, 1948–49; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949–50; California Institute of Technology, 1950–present. Honors: Lester R. Ford Award, MAA, 2005, 2008.

Harold Maile Bacon—Born in Los Angeles, CA, January 13, 1907. BA, 1928, MS, 1929, PhD, 1933, Stanford University. Positions held: Stanford University 1933–72. Honors: Dinkelspiel Award, Stanford University, 1965; Distinguished Service Award, MAA, 1988. Died in Palo Alto, CA, August 22, 1992.

Thomas Francis Banchoff—Born in Trenton, NJ, April 7, 1938. BA, 1960, University of Notre Dame; MS, 1962, PhD, 1964, University of California, Berkeley. Positions held: Harvard University, 1964–66; University of Amsterdam, 1966–67; Brown University, 1967–present. Honors: Lester R. Ford Award, MAA, 1978; Bray Award, Brown University, 1993; Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching, MAA, 1996; Director’s Award for Distinguished Teacher Scholar, NSF, 2004.

Leon Bankoff—Born in New York, NY, December 13, 1908. BS, 1928, City College of New York; DDS, 1932, University of Southern California. A dentist by profession, he practiced in Beverly Hills. Died in Los Angeles, CA, February 16, 1997.

Alice Beckenbach—Born December 16, 1917. BS, 1938, Northwestern University. Died in Hamilton, NY, March 18, 2010.

Arthur Benjamin—Born in Mayfield Heights, OH, March 19, 1961. BS, 1983, Carnegie Mellon University; PhD, 1989, The Johns Hopkins University. Positions held: Harvey Mudd College, 1989–present. Honors: Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching, MAA, 2000; George Pólya Lecturer, MAA, 2006–8; Beckenbach Book Prize, MAA, 2006.

Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright—Born in Aynho, Northamptonshire, England, December 17, 1900. Undergraduate, 1923, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University; MA, Oxford University; MA, Cambridge University; DPhil, 1930, Oxford University. Positions held: Alice Ottley School, 1923–27; Wycombe School, 1927–28; Cambridge University, 1933–98. Honors: Fellow of the Royal Society, 1947; Sylvester Medal, RS, 1964; De Morgan Medal, LMS, 1968; Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1969. Died in Cambridge, England, April 3, 1998.

Joseph Gallian—Born in New Kensington, PA, January 5, 1942. BA, 1966, Slippery Rock University; MA, 1968, University of Kansas; PhD, 1971, University of Notre Dame. Positions held: University of Notre Dame, 1971–72; University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1972–present. Honors: Carl B. Allendoerfer Award, MAA, 1977; Haimo Distinguished Teaching Award, MAA, 1993; Trevor Evans Award, MAA, 1996; George Pólya Lecturer, MAA, 1999–2001.

Abbreviations: AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science; AMS, American Mathematical Society; APS, American Philosophical Society; AWM, Association for Women in Mathematics; AWIS, Association for Women in Science; LMS, London Mathematical Society, MAA, Mathematical Association of America; NSA, National Security Agency; NSF, National Science Foundation; RS, Royal Society of London.

Richard Kenneth Guy—Born in Nuneaton, Warwick-shire, England, September 30, 1916. BA, 1938, MA, 1941, Cambridge University. Positions held: Goldsmiths (University of London), 1947–51; University of Malay, Singapore, 1951–62; Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 1962–65; University of Calgary, 1965–present. Honors: Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1976; Hedrick Lecturer, MAA, 1978; Lester R. Ford Award, MAA, 1989.

Fern Hunt—Born in New York, NY, 1948. AB, Bryn Mawr College; MS, PhD, 1978, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Postdoctoral appointment, University of Utah, 1978. Positions held: Howard University, 1978–93; Consultant, National Bureau of Standards, 1986–91; National Institutes of Health, 1981–82; National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1993–present. Honor: Arthur S. Flemming Award, 2000.

Dusa Waddington McDuff—Born in London, October 18, 1945. BSc, 1967, University of Edinburgh; PhD, 1971, Cambridge University. Postdoctoral appointments: Cambridge University, Moscow University, 1971–73. Positions held: York University, 1973–76; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974–75; Warwick University, 1976–78; State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1978–2007; Columbia University, 2007–present. Honors: Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize, AMS, 1991; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1994; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995; Noether Lecturer, AWM, 1998; National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 1999; Honorary membership, London Mathematical Society, 2007.

Donald G. Saari—Born in Houghton, MI, March 9, 1940. BS, Michigan Technological University; MS, 1962, PhD, 1964, Purdue University. Postdoctoral appointment, Yale University, 1967–68. Positions held: Northwestern University, 1968–2000; University of California, Irvine, 2000–present. Honors: Lester R. Ford Award, MAA, 1985; Guggenheim Fellow, 1989; Chauvenet Prize, MAA, 1995; Carl B. Allendoerfer Award, MAA, 1999; National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2001; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004.

Atle Selberg—Born in Langeslund, Norway, June 14, 1917. PhD, 1943, University of Oslo. Positions held: University of Oslo, 1942–47; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1947–48; Syracuse University, 1948–49; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1949–2007. Honors: Fields Medal, 1950; Wolf Prize, 1986; Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, 1987. Died in Princeton, NJ, August 6, 2007.

Jean Ellen Taylor—Born in San Mateo, CA, September 17, 1944. BA, 1966, Mount Holyoke College; MS, 1968, University of California, Berkeley; MS, 1971, University of Warwick; PhD, 1973, Princeton University. Positions held: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972–73; Rutgers University, 1973–2002; Visiting Scholar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 2002–present. Honors: Earl Raymond Hedrick Lecturer, MAA, 1998; Fellow, AAAS, 1999; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999; Fellow, AWIS, 1999; and Noether Lecturer, AWM, 2003.

Philippe Tondeur—Born in Zürich, Switzerland, December 7, 1932. PhD, 1961, University of Zürich. Positions held: University of Paris, 1961–63; University of Zürich, 1963–64; Harvard University, 1964–65; University of California, Berkeley, 1965–66; Wesleyan University, 1966–68; University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1970–2002; Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1999–2002.