William Francis Donoghue Jr. (7 September 1921 – 4 April 2002,
Irvine, California) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis.
Biography
Donoghue received in 1951 his PhD from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison. His dissertation ''The Bounded Closure of Locally Convex Spaces'' was written under the supervision of
William Frederick Eberlein
William Frederick Eberlein (June 25, 1917, Shawano, Wisconsin – 1986, Rochester, New York) was an American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis and mathematical physics.
Life
Eberlein studied from 1936 to 1942 at the University o ...
. Donoghue taught and did research at the
University of Kansas,
New York University, and
Michigan State University
Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...
, before he became in 1965 a professor at the
University of California, Irvine.
For the academic year 1958/59
he was a Guggenheim Fellow in Sweden. For four months in 1962 he was a visiting professor at the University of Paris. He spent the academic year 1972/73 on sabbatical at the University of Lund.
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On January 26, 1974, he married Grace Koo in Orange County, California.
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20th-century American mathematicians
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of California, Irvine faculty
1921 births
2002 deaths
American expatriates in France
American expatriates in Sweden
University of Kansas people
New York University people
Michigan State University people