John Robert Kline (December 7, 1891 – May 2, 1955) was an American mathematician and educator. One of three children born to Henry K. Kline (1862–1923) and Emma M. Kline (1869–1948), he was Professor of

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from 1920–1955. A Ph.D. student of Robert Lee Moore, he was a

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in 1925, later Chairman of the Department of Mathematics from 1933–1954, and Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics from 1941–1955. His doctoral students include

Lida Barrett Lida Baker Kittrell Barrett (May 21, 1927 – January 28, 2021) was an American mathematics professor and administrator. She served on many committees and boards and contributed to mathematics, mathematics education, and increasing the participa ...

Arthur Milgram Arthur Norton Milgram (3 June 1912, in Philadelphia – 30 January 1961) was an American mathematician. He made contributions in functional analysis, combinatorics, differential geometry, topology, partial differential equations, and Galois theory. ...

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, Dudley Weldon Woodard,

Leo Zippin Leo Zippin (1905 – May 11, 1995) was an American mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Biography Leo Zippin was born in 1905 to Bella Salwen and Max Zippin, wh ...

, and William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor.William W. Schieffelin Claytor
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* 1891 births 1955 deaths People from Quakertown, Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania faculty Mathematicians at the University of Pennsylvania 20th-century American mathematicians {{US-mathematician-stub