About Detlef Gromoll
Lived 1938 – 2008 (aged 70). Detlef Gromoll was a German mathematician and university teacher, known for Soul theorem and Splitting theorem.
Detlef Gromoll (13 May 1938 – 31 May 2008) was a mathematician who worked in differential geometry.
Biography
Gromoll was born in Berlin in 1938, and was a classically trained violinist. After living and attending school in Rosdorf and graduating from high school in Bonn, he obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Bonn in 1964. Following sojourns at several universities, he joined the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1969.
He married Suzan L. Lemay on 29 December 1971, and they had three children together: Hans Christian (also a mathematician), Heidi, and Stefan, a physicist and cofounder of Scientific Media. He died in 2008 at age 70.
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German mathematician (1938–2008)
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Detlef Gromoll was born on 13 May 1938 in Berlin.
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Detlef Gromoll died on 31 May 2008 in Stony Brook.
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Detlef Gromoll was a mathematician and university teacher.
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Detlef Gromoll was known for Soul theorem and Splitting theorem.
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Detlef Gromoll was German.
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