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)![]() |
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)![]() |
PhD UMass 1966 (the first PhD granted by our Department!) Research: Lattice theory |
Melvyn Berger (1939-2005)![]() |
PhD Yale 1964 Became Emeritus 2003 Research: Nonlinear PDE |
Donald Catlin (1936-2016)![]() |
PhD University of Florida 1965 Research: stochastic estimation and control, Kalman filtering, navigation and guidance |
Haskell Cohen (1920-2012) |
PhD Tulane 1953 Research: Topology; semigroups |
Helen Cullen (1919-2007)![]() |
PhD University of Michigan, 1950 Research: Topology |
David J. Dickinson (1920-1997)![]() |
PhD University of Michigan, 1954 Research: Special functions |
PhD Courant (NYU) 1972 Research: Probability theory, large deviations |
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PhD Harvard 1966 |
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PhD Tulane, 1958 Joined UMass 1965 Became Emeritus 1997 Research: Algebraic foundations of quantum mechanics obituary |
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Michael Gauger (1945 - 2021) |
PhD Notre Dame 1971 Joined UMass 1972 Became Emeritus 2001 Research: Lie Algebras obituary |
PhD Duke University 1963 Joined UMass 1967 Became Emeritus 2002 Research: Number Theory obituary |
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PhD Harvard, 1961 |
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James E. Humphreys (1939-2020) |
PhD Yale, 1966 Research: Representation Theory |
Henry Jacob ( -2005)![]() |
PhD Yale University 1951 Research: Algebra |
Melvin Janowitz (1929-2015) |
PhD University of Minnesota 1950 Research: Lattice theory |
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PhD Yale, 1960 Research: Ring theory |
Teng-sun Liu (1932-2009) |
PhD University of Pennsylvania 1963 Joined UMass 1965 Became Emeritus 2002 Research: Transformation groups |
Charles H. Randall (1928-1987) |
PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1967 |
Walter Rosenkrantz |
PhD University of Illinois, 1963 Joined UMass 1971 Became Emeritus 2004 Research: Markov processes; modeling of network traffic |
Berthold Schweizer (1929-2010)![]() |
PhD Illinois Institute of Technology, 1956 |
Morris Skibinsky |
PhD University of North Carolina, 1954 Research: Statistics |
Doris Stockton (1924-2018)![]() |
PhD Brown University, 1958 Joined UMass 1954 Became Emerita 2006 Research: Partial differential equations obituary |
Marshall Stone (1903-1989)![]() |
PhD Harvard 1926 |
Wayman Strother (1923-2002) |
PhD 1952 Tulane University Research: Topology |
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