About Julius L. Shaneson
Born 1944. Julius L. Shaneson is an American mathematician and university teacher.
Julius L. Shaneson (born July 24, 1944, Richmond, Virginia) is an American mathematician. He works at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was department chair from 2002 to 2006 and is currently the Class of 1939 Professor of Mathematics.
Education and career Shaneson earned his Ph.D. in 1968 from the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Melvin Rothenberg. He taught at Rutgers University before joining the University of Pennsylvania; his students at Rutgers included Abigail Thompson.
He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to topology".
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