Awards & Winners

Saunders Mac Lane

Date of Birth 04-August-1909
Place of Birth Taftville
(Connecticut, New London County, Connecticut Route 97, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Saunders MacLane
Profession Mathematician
Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.

Awards by Saunders Mac Lane

Check all the awards nominated and won by Saunders Mac Lane.

1989


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For revolutionizing the language and content of modern mathematics by his collaboration in the creation and development of the fields of homological algebra and category theory, for outstanding contributions to mathematics education, and for incisive leadership of the mathematical and scientific communities.)

1941


Chauvenet Prize
(For his writing Modular Fields and Some Recent Advances in Algebra.)