Awards & Winners

Hassler Whitney

Date of Birth 23-March-1907
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Mathematician, Mountaineer
Hassler Whitney was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, and characteristic classes, as well as in geometric integration theory.

Awards by Hassler Whitney

Check all the awards nominated and won by Hassler Whitney.

1982


Wolf Prize in Mathematics
(for his fundamental work in algebraic topology, differential geometry and differential topology.)

1976


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For founding, and bringing to maturity, the discipline of differential topology.)