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Stephen Allen (1915-2007)
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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)
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PhD, UMass, 1966 (the first PhD granted by our department!)

Research: lattice theory
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Melvyn Berger (1939-2005)
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PhD, Yale, 1964
Became Professor Emeritus in 2003
Research: nonlinear PDE
Donald Catlin (1936-2016)
Donald Catlin

PhD, University of Florida, 1965
Joined UMass in 1965
Became Professor Emeritus in 2001

Research: stochastic estimation and control, Kalman filtering, navigation and guidance
 

Haskell Cohen (1920-2012)
Haskell Cohen

PhD, Tulane University, 1953
Joined UMass in 1967
Became Professor Emeritus in 1995

Research: topology; semigroups

Helen Cullen (1919-2007)
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PhD, University of Michigan, 1950
Joined UMass in 1949
Became Professor Emerita in 1992

Research: topology

David J. Dickinson (1920-1997)
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PhD, University of Michigan, 1954

Research: special functions

Richard Ellis (1947-2018)
Richard Ellis

PhD, Courant (NYU) 1972
Joined UMass in 1975

Research: probability theory, large deviations
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John Fogarty (1934-2009)
John Fogarty

PhD, Harvard, 1966
Joined UMass in 1972
Became Professor Emeritus in 2008

Research: algebraic geometry
 

David Foulis (1930-2018)
David Foulis
PhD, Tulane University, 1958
Joined UMass in 1965
Became Professor Emeritus in 1997

Research: algebraic foundations of quantum mechanics
 
Michael Gauger (1945 - 2021)
Michael Gauger
PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1971
Joined UMass in 1972
Became Professor Emeritus in 2001

Research: lie algebras
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David Hayes (1937-2011)
David Hayes
PhD, Duke University, 1963
Joined UMass in 1967
Became Professor Emeritus in 2002

Research: number theory

 
Samuel S. Holland, Jr. (1928-2018)
Samuel Holland

PhD, Harvard, 1961
Joined UMass in 1967
Became Professor Emeritus in 1997

Research: lattice theory
 

James E. Humphreys (1939-2020)
James Humphreys

PhD, Yale, 1966
Joined UMass in 1974
Became Professor Emeritus in 2003

Research: representation theory
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Henry Jacob (  -2005)
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PhD, Yale, 1951
Joined UMass in 1962
Became Professor Emeritus in 1987

Research: algebra
 

Melvin Janowitz (1929-2015)
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PhD, University of Minnesota, 1950
Joined UMass in 1967
Became Professor Emeritus in 2000

Research: lattice theory
 

Eleanor Killam (1933-2018)
Eleanor Killam

PhD, Yale, 1960
Joined UMass in 1960
Became Professor Emerita in 1991

Research: ring theory
 

Hsu-Tung Ku (1933-2021)
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PhD, Tulane University, 1967
Joined UMass in 1968
Became Professor Emeritus in 2001

Research: geometry and topology
 

Mei-Chin Ku (1937-2021)
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PhD, Tulane University, 1967
Joined UMass in 1970
Became Professor Emeritus in 2002

Research: geometry and topology
 

Teng-sun Liu (1932-2009)
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PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1963
Joined UMass in 1965
Became Professor Emeritus in 2002

Research: transformation groups
 
Charles H. Randall (1928-1987)
Charles Randall

PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1967
Joined UMass in 1967(?)

Research: lattice theory, foundations of quantum mechanics

Walter Rosenkrantz (1938-2017)
Walter Rosenkrantz
PhD, University of Illinois, 1963
Joined UMass in 1971
Became Professor Emeritus in 2004

Research: Markov processes, modeling of network traffic
 
Berthold Schweizer (1929-2010)
Berthold Schweizer

PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1956
Joined UMass in 1965
Became Professor Emeritus in 1995

Research: probability
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Morris Skibinsky (1925-2007)
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PhD, University of North Carolina, 1954
Joined UMass in 1968
Became Professor Emeritus in 1994

Research: statistics

Doris Stockton (1924-2018)
Doris Stockton
PhD, Brown University, 1958
Joined UMass in 1954
Became Professor Emerita in 2006

Research: partial differential equations
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Marshall Stone (1903-1989)
Marshall Stone

PhD, Harvard, 1926
Joined UMass as George D. Birkhoff Professor in 1968
Became Professor Emeritus in 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
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Wayman Strother (1923-2002)
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PhD, Tulane University, 1952
Retired in 1989

Research: topology
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