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Categories: Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty, Articles with short description, Princeton University faculty, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni, Yale College alumni
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Hassler Whitney
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Hassler Whitney was an American mathematician. Wikipedia
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Hassler Whitney was an American mathematician. Wikipedia
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IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
National Medal of Science
Leroy P. Steele Prize
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
George David Birkhoff
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Paul Olum
Herbert Robbins
James Eells
Wilfred Kaplan
Richard Eliot Chamberlin
EDUCATED AT
Harvard University
Yale University
EMPLOYER
Harvard University
Institute for Advanced Study
Applied Mathematics Panel
FAMILY
Whitney family
FAMILY NAME
Whitney
FATHER
Edward Baldwin Whitney
FIELD OF WORK
topology
graph theory
singularity theory
GIVEN NAME
Hassler
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
Swiss Alpine Club
American Philosophical Society
MOTHER
Josepha Newcomb Whitney
NOTABLE WORK
Whitney immersion theorem
Whitney covering lemma
Whitney umbrella
Whitney topologies
Whitney disk
+9 relations
OCCUPATION
mathematician
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
New York
PLACE OF BURIAL
Dent Blanche
PLACE OF DEATH
Princeton
POSITION HELD
president
RELATIVE
Newcomb
William Dwight Whitney
Josiah Whitney
SEX OR GENDER
male
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Hassler Whitney
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Hassler Whitney

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