Daniel Gray Quillen

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Daniel Gray Quillen

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Birthplace: Orange, New Jersey, United States
Death: April 30, 2011 (70)
Gainesville, FL, United States
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Son of Charles Sylvester Quillen and Emma Lewis Quillen
Husband of Private User
Father of Private; Private User; Private User; Private; Private and 1 other
Brother of Private

Occupation: Mathematician
Managed by: Eran David Rivlis
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About Daniel Gray Quillen

Daniel Gray "Dan" Quillen (June 22, 1940 – April 30, 2011) was an American mathematician.

From 1984 to 2006, he was the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9088912/Daniel-Gray-Quillen

http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=13325

http://www.claymath.org/publications/quillen-notebooks

Awards

  • Fields Medal (1978)
  • Cole Prize (1975)
  • Putnam Fellow (1959)
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Daniel Gray Quillen's Timeline

1940
June 22, 1940
Orange, New Jersey, United States
1957
1957
- 1961
Age 16
Harvard University
1962
1962
- 1964
Age 21
Harvard University