In memoriam | Department of Mathematics and Statistics

This page was created to remember past faculty from the department who have died.

If you know of any corrections or additional information we should add, please contact Tom Braden.

Stephen Allen (1915-2007) $Stephen Allen$	PhD University of Pittsburgh 1963 Joined Umass in 1948 as an Instructor; later promoted to Assistant and Associate Professor Retired 1981
Mary K. Bennett (1940-1997) $Mary K. Bennett$	PhD UMass 1966 (the first PhD granted by our Department!) Research: Lattice theory obituary
Melvyn Berger (1939-2005) $Melvyn Berger$	PhD Yale 1964 Became Emeritus 2003 Research: Nonlinear PDE
Donald Catlin (1936-2016) $Donald Catlin$	PhD University of Florida 1965 Joined UMass 1965 Became Emeritus 2001 Research: stochastic estimation and control, Kalman filtering, navigation and guidance
Haskell Cohen (1920-2012) $Haskell Cohen$	PhD Tulane 1953 Joined UMass 1967 Became Emeritus 1995 Research: Topology; semigroups
Helen Cullen (1919-2007)	PhD University of Michigan, 1950 Joined UMass 1949 Became Emerita 1992 Research: Topology
David J. Dickinson (1920-1997)	PhD University of Michigan, 1954 Research: Special functions
Richard Ellis (1947-2018) $Richard Ellis$	PhD Courant (NYU) 1972 Joined UMass 1975 Research: Probability theory, large deviations obituary Memorial conference
John Fogarty (1934-2009) $John Fogarty$	PhD Harvard 1966 Joined UMass 1972 Became Emeritus 2008 Research: Algebraic geometry obituary
David Foulis (1930-2018) $David Foulis$	PhD Tulane, 1958 Joined UMass 1965 Became Emeritus 1997 Research: Algebraic foundations of quantum mechanics obituary
Michael Gauger (1945 - 2021) $Michael Gauger$	PhD Notre Dame 1971 Joined UMass 1972 Became Emeritus 2001 Research: Lie Algebras obituary
David Hayes (1937-2011) $David Hayes$	PhD Duke University 1963 Joined UMass 1967 Became Emeritus 2002 Research: Number Theory obituary
Samuel S. Holland, Jr. (1928-2018)	PhD Harvard, 1961 Joined UMass 1967 Became Emeritus 1997 Research: Lattice theory obituary
James E. Humphreys (1939-2020) $James E. Humphreys$	PhD Yale, 1966 Joined UMass 1974 Became Emeritus 2003 Research: Representation Theory obituary
Henry Jacob ( -2005)	PhD Yale University 1951 Joined UMass 1962 Became Emeritus 1987 Research: Algebra
Melvin Janowitz (1929-2015)	PhD University of Minnesota 1950 Joined UMass 1967 Became Emeritus 2000 Research: Lattice theory
Eleanor Killam (1933-2018) $Eleanor Killam$	PhD Yale, 1960 Joined UMass 1960 Became Emerita 1991 Research: Ring theory obituary
Teng-sun Liu (1932-2009)	PhD University of Pennsylvania 1963 Joined UMass 1965 Became Emeritus 2002 Research: Transformation groups
Charles H. Randall (1928-1987) $Charles H. Randall$	PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1967 Joined UMass 1967(?) Research: Lattice theory, foundations of quantum mechanics Memorial article for CH Randall, by D. Foulis and M.K. Bennett
Walter Rosenkrantz (1938-2017) $Walter Rosenkrantz$	PhD University of Illinois, 1963 Joined UMass 1971 Became Emeritus 2004 Research: Markov processes; modeling of network traffic
Berthold Schweizer (1929-2010) $Berthold Schweizer$	PhD Illinois Institute of Technology, 1956 Joined UMass 1965 Became Emeritus 1995 Research: Probability obituary
Morris Skibinsky (1925-2007)	PhD University of North Carolina, 1954 Joined UMass 1968 Became Emeritus 1994 Research: Statistics Remembrance of Morris (from department newsletter)
Doris Stockton (1924-2018) $Doris Stockton$	PhD Brown University, 1958 Joined UMass 1954 Became Emerita 2006 Research: Partial differential equations obituary
Marshall Stone (1903-1989) $Marshall Stone$	PhD Harvard 1926 Joined UMass as George D. Birkhoff Professor 1968 Became Emeritus 1980 Member, National Academy of Sciences 1938 President, American Mathematical Society 1943-44 President, International Mathematical Union 1952-54 National Medal of Science 1982 Research: Functional analysis, Boolean algebra, topology, quantum mechanics obituary
Wayman Strother (1923-2002)	PhD 1952 Tulane University Retired 1989 Research: Topology obituary