Richard Vincent Kadison
| Richard Kadison | |
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| Born | July 25, 1925 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Known for |
Kadison–Kaplansky conjecture Kadison's inequality Kadison–Singer problem Kadison transitivity theorem Kadison–Sakai theorem Kadison–Kastler metric |
| Awards | Steele Prize (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | Marshall Harvey Stone |
| Doctoral students |
James Glimm Richard Lashof Erling Størmer Gert Pedersen Marc Rieffel |
Richard V. Kadison (born July 25, 1925) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras.
Kadison 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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