Entries by Shakeh Kalantarmoradian

In Memoriam: Basil Gordon Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, 1931 – 2012

Basil Gordon was born on December 23, 1931, and died 80 years later on January 12, 2012. He grew up in Baltimore and attended Johns Hopkins University where he received his master’s degree in mathematics in 1953. While still an undergraduate, he spent a year in Hamburg, studying with the great algebraists Emil Artin and […]

In Memoriam: Barrett O’Neill Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, 1924 – 2011

Professor Emeritus Barrett O’Neill died on June 16, 2011, at age 87. O’Neill joined the department in 1951, directly from MIT, where he had just received his PhD under the direction of Witold Hurewicz. O’Neill retired in 1991, but he continued his mathematical work, with a major book on relativity, The Geometry of Kerr Black […]