Richard Kadison Scientist

Richard V. Kadison (b. July 25, 1925) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras. He is a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.Kadison is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996), and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow.Richard Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.Dick Kadison was a skilled gymnast with a specialty in rings. He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they have one son, Lars.

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Richard Kadison
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1925
Nationality
United States
Education
University of Chicago
Known for
Cauchy–Schwarz inequality
Kaplansky's conjecture
Kadison%E2%80%93Singer problem

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awards
Leroy P. Steele Prize
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
James Glimm
Marc Rieffel
Gert Pedersen
Field of study
Mathematics

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External resources

  1. http://books.google.com/books/about/Fundamentals_of_the_Theory_of_Operator_A.html?id=Q3J6TV6euVYC
  2. http://books.google.com/books/about/Fundamentals_of_the_Theory_of_Operator_A.html?id=h5bMkZTnowAC
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