Robert MacPherson
American mathematician
Also known as Robert Duncan MacPherson · Robert D. MacPherson
- Born
- May 25, 1944
- Birthplace
- Citizenship
- Occupation
- mathematician
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2023-09-28
- 2.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
- , topologist
- , university teacher
- mathematician
- Education
- Employer
- Languages spoken, written or signed
- English
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Sources- 1.Stated in BnF authoritiesRetrieved 2015-10-10
- 2.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-03-01
- 3.Stated in CONOR.SI
- English
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- Sex or gender
- male
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2025-08-29
- male
- Field of work
- topology
- mathematics
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-11-07
- algebraic geometry
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-11-07
- representation theory
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-11-07
- Member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Mathematical Society(since 2012) subject has role: Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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Sources- 1.ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2013Retrieved 2022-11-24
- 2.ams.org/news?news_id=1680Retrieved 2022-11-24
- Doctoral student
- Yi Hu
- Mark Goresky
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- David Nadler
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- Julianna Tymoczko
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- Eric Babson
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- Paul R. Dippolito
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- David B. Damiano
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- Kevin Ryan
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- Allen D. Shepard
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- Mark W. McConnell
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- Masaki Hanamura
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- Francis Yein Chei Fung
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- Mikhail Grinberg
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- Paul Edward Gunnells
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- Jared Emery Anderson
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- David Yavin
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- Tom Charles Braden
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- Laura Marie Anderson
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- Mohamed Jamil Baddoura
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- Richard Allan Scott
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- Wolfram Gerdes
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- Brent R. Doran
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- Aravind Asok
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- David Lang Treumann
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- Emanuel Lazar
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- Benjamin Schweinhart
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- Zhiwei Yun
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- Awards
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society(2013) announcement date: November 1, 2012
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Sources- 1.ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2013Retrieved 2022-11-24
- 2.ams.org/news?news_id=1680Retrieved 2022-11-24
- Heinz Hopf Prize(2009)
- Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research(2002)
- Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics(1992) award rationale: For his role in the introduction and application of radically new approaches to the topology of singular spaces, including characteristics classes, intersection homology, perverse sheaves, and stratified Morse theory.
- honorary doctorate from University of Lille-I(July 23, 1991)
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society(2013) announcement date: November 1, 2012
On other databases
30 identifiers linking Robert MacPherson across the web's reference databases
- All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID37116
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID12292335m
- BIBSYS ID90301983
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf11164163
- Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID1331
- CiNii Research ID1140845216564561664
- CONOR.SI ID35009123
- DBLP author ID117/3644
- DDB person (GND) ID172245257
- Freebase ID/m/02q65kr
- GND ID172245257
- IdRef ID069141983
- ISNI0000000109334224
- J9U entity ID987007434360305171
- Libraries Australia ID36233996
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn81016586
- Mathematics Genealogy Project ID11546
- MR Author ID117525
- NACSIS-CAT author IDDA02230657
- Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID071608192
- NL CR AUT IDmzk2005271902
- NLA Trove people ID619041
- NLab IDRobert MacPherson
- NUKAT IDn99003434
- RERO ID (legacy)A003547748
- Scopus author ID7005098749
- VIAF cluster ID109564860
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJmP43PDFJcTwtVbtHqmh3
- Yale LUX IDperson/74baa1f5-5399-4cb4-854b-8ead3b56321b
- ZbMATH author IDmacpherson.robert-d