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Gordon Thomas Whyburn

Date of Birth 07-January-1904
Place of Birth Denton County
(Texas, Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division)
Nationality
Gordon Thomas Whyburn was an American mathematician who worked on topology. Whyburn studied at the University of Texas in Austin, where he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1925. Under the influence of his teacher Robert Lee Moore, Whyburn continued to study at Austin but changed to mathematics and earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1926 and then a PhD in 1927. After two years as an adjunct professor at U. of Texas, with the aid of a Guggenheim fellowship Whyburn spent the academic year 1929/1930 in Vienna with Hans Hahn and in Warsaw with Kuratowski and Sierpinski. After the fellowship expired, Whyburn became a professor at Johns Hopkins University. From 1934 he was a professor at the University of Virginia, where he modernized the mathematics department and spent the rest of his career. He was chair of the department until his first heart attack in 1966; Edward J. McShane joined the department in 1935, and Gustav A. Hedlund was a member of the department from 1939 to 1948. In the academic year 1952/1953 Whyburn was a visiting professor at Stanford University. In 1953-1954 he served as president of the American Mathematical Society.

Awards by Gordon Thomas Whyburn

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1938


Chauvenet Prize
(For his work, On the Structure of Continua.)