About Richard Eliot Chamberlin
Lived 1923 – 1994 (aged 70). Richard Eliot Chamberlin was an American mathematician.
Richard Eliot Chamberlin (March 20, 1923 – March 14, 1994) was an American mathematician, specializing in geometric topology.
Biography Chamberlin was born on March 20, 1923, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father was Ralph Vary Chamberlin. Eliot Chamberlin attended East High School in Salt Lake City.
Chamberlin joined the faculty of the mathematics department at the University of Utah in 1949 and retired there as professor emeritus on July 1, 1988. Chamberlin gave an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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American mathematician (1923-1994)
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