Category:Irving Segal

**Irving Segal**
	American mathematician
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Date of birth	13 September 1918; The Bronx; Irving Ezra Segal
Date of death	30 August 1998; Lexington
Place of burial	Mount Auburn Cemetery (Story Chapel Colum-Col 4-B-1, 42°22′17.31″N 71°8′40.056″W);
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	Princeton University (1934–1937); Yale University (1937–1940); Trenton Central High School (–1934);
Doctoral advisor	Einar Hille;
Doctoral student	Lester Dubins (1955); John C. Baez (1986); Edward Nelson (1955); Walter Alexander Strauss (1962); Henry Dye (1950); Roe William Goodman (1963); Robert James Blattner (1957); Ernest Michael (1951); Ray Kunze (1957); Abel Klein (1971); Leonard Gross (1958); Jacob Feldman (1954); Niels Kristian Skovhus Poulsen (1970); W. Forrest Stinespring (1957); David Shale (1960); John Martin Chadam (1965); Joseph Marion Cook (1951); Ernest Lyle Griffin, Jr. (1952); Brian Abrahamson (1957); Robert Richard Kallman (1968); …;
Occupation	mathematician;
Employer	Harvard University (1941–1941); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1960–1989); University of Chicago (1948–1960); Princeton University (1941–1943); Aberdeen Proving Ground (1943–1945); Institute for Advanced Study (visiting scholar, 1945–1948);
Member of	National Academy of Sciences (1973–); American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Astronomical Society; Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters;
Field of work	quantum mechanics;
Notable work	Theoretical foundations of the chronometric cosmology; A variant of special relativity and long-distance astronomy; Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction; C*-algebra;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship (1946, 1951, 1967); Humboldt Prize (1981);
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	Q381347; ISNI: 0000000108545097; VIAF ID: 72279; GND ID: 119350211; Library of Congress authority ID: n50005775; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12281844h; IdRef ID: 031641598; Libraries Australia ID: 35487864; NL CR AUT ID: xx0153584; SELIBR ID: 405871; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 079958478; NORAF ID: 90165016; NUKAT ID: n97081338; Libris-URI: hftx61010gqq088; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007463645805171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA00887912; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 6386
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