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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