Thomas A. Scott Professorship of Mathematics
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The Thomas A. Scott Professorship of Mathematics is an academic grant made to the University of Pennsylvania
. It was established in 1881 by the railroad executive and financier: Thomas Alexander Scott
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
. It was established in 1881 by the railroad executive and financier: Thomas Alexander Scott
Thomas Alexander Scott
Thomas Alexander Scott was an American businessman. He was the 4th president of what was the largest corporation in the world, the Pennsylvania Railroad, during the middle of the 19th century...
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Recipients
- Ezra Otis Kendall, 1881 – 1899
- Edwin Schofield Crawley, 1899 – 1933
- George Hervey Hallett, 1933 – 1941
- John Robert KlineJohn Robert KlineJohn Robert Kline was a US-American Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1920 to 1955. A Ph.D. student of Robert Lee Moore, he was Guggenheim Fellow in 1925, later Chairman of the Department of Mathematics from 1933 to 1954 and Thomas A...
, 1941 – 1955 - Hans A. Rademacher, 1956 – 1962
- Eugenio CalabiEugenio CalabiEugenio Calabi is a Italian American mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications....
, 1967 – 1993 - Shmuel WeinbergerShmuel WeinbergerThe mathematician Shmuel Aaron Weinberger is an American topologist. He completed a PhD in mathematics in 1982 at New York University under the direction of Sylvain Cappell. Weinberger was from 1994 to 1996 the Thomas A...
, 1994 – 1996 - Herbert S. Wilf, 1998 – 2006
- Charles EpsteinCharles EpsteinCharles Epstein is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.-Research interests:Epstein is an analyst and applied mathematician....
, 1998 – present