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Robion Kirby

Robion Cromwell Kirby

American mathematician.

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Sex or Gender

Male

Occupation

Mathematician
Topologist
University Teacher

Field of Work

Topology

Country of Citizenship

United States

Date of Birth

2/25/1938

Award Received

Guggenheim Fellowship
NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing
(1995)
Award Rationale
: For his list of problems in low-dimensional topology and his tireless maintenance of it; several generations have been greatly influenced by Kirby's list.
Point in Time
: 1995
Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
(1971)
Point in Time
: 1971
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
(2013)
Point in Time
: 2013
Announcement Date
: 11/1/2012

Instance Of

Human

Employer

University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Berkeley

Educated At

University of Chicago

Member Of

National Academy of Sciences
American Mathematical Society
(11/1/2012 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Start Time
: 11/1/2012

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Place of Birth

Chicago

Doctoral Advisor

Eldon Dyer

Name in Native Language

Robion Kirby

Family Name

Kirby

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Given Name

Robion
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