Armand Borel

Armand Borel
Armand Borel in Bonn, 1967.
Born	(1923-05-21)21 May 1923 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Died	11 August 2003(2003-08-11) (aged 80) Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Alma mater	ETH Zürich
Awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (1991)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Institute for Advanced Study
Doctoral advisor	Jean Leray

Armand Borel (21 May 1923 – 11 August 2003) was a Swiss mathematician, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and was a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States from 1957 to 1993. He worked in algebraic topology, in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.