| Authorised form of name | Leray; Jean (1906 - 1998) |
| Dates | 1906 - 1998 |
| Nationality | French |
| Date of birth | 07/11/1906 |
| Date of death | 10/11/1998 |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
Ecole Normale Superieure (entered 1926)
Career:
Professor, University of Nancy (1938); Lieutenant in an artillery unit (1939); prisoner of war (1940-1945); changed from studying fluid mechanics to algebraic topology to avoid being forced to collaborate in the German war effort, and submitted research announcements to French journals (1942); Professor, University of Paris (elected 1943, could not take up post until 1945); Professor, College de France (1948); member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1951-1961); proved the Cauchy integral formula, which became known as the Cauchy-Leray formula (1959)
Memberships:
Academie des sciences (Corresponding Member 1944; Member 1953); Fellow of the Americal Philosophical Society (1959)
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 30/06/1983 |
| Age at election | 76 |
| Relationships | Son of two primary school teachers; married (1931) Marguerite Trumier; three children, Jean-Claude, Francoise, Denis |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 137-148, plate, by Martin Andler
Biographical memoirs, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society vol 144, no. 4 (December 2000) 470-477, plate |
| Code | NA5959 |
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