Kelley, John L.
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- Kelli, Dzhon L.
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1916-12-06
Death Date
- 1999-11-26
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1952
- Affiliation End: 1953
- Organization: University of Kansas
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1950
- Affiliation End: 1952
- Organization: Tulane University
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1945
- Affiliation End: 1947
- Organization: University of Chicago
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1942
- Affiliation End: 1945
- Organization: Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Notre Dame
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation End: 1940
- Organization: University of Virginia
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Associated Locale
- Oakland (Calif.)
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: His General topology, 1955.
- found: Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1916; A.B., M.A., Ph.D.)
- found: University of California, Berkeley website, 4 Aug. 2016:News release dated 12/01/99 (John L. Kelley, emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, died on Nov. 26 at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland of complications resulting from surgery; Kelley was born in Kansas on Dec. 6, 1916. After earning AB and MA degrees at UCLA, he obtained his PhD at the University of Virginia in 1940; began his professorial work in 1940 at the University of Notre Dame; 1942-45, he worked at Aberdeen Proving Grounds; 1945 to 1947 at the University of Chicago; arrived at UC Berkeley in 1947; one of 29 tenured UC Berkeley faculty members fired by the university in 1950 for refusing to sign a loyalty oath; visiting associate professor at Tulane University from 1950 to 1952 and at the University of Kansas from 1952 to 1953; returned to UC Berkeley after the oath was declared unconstitutional; played a major role in reforming both the undergraduate and graduate mathematics curricula. He retired in 1985.) - http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/12-01-1999a.html
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Change Notes
- 1980-10-20: new
- 2023-09-06: revised
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