Solomon Lefschetz

Solomon Lefschetz ForMemRS
Born	(1884-09-03)3 September 1884 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	5 October 1972(1972-10-05) (aged 88) Princeton, New Jersey, US
Citizenship	US
Alma mater	École Centrale Paris Clark University
Known for	Lefschetz fixed-point theorem Picard–Lefschetz theory Lefschetz connection Lefschetz hyperplane theorem Lefschetz duality Lefschetz manifold Lefschetz number Lefschetz principle Lefschetz zeta function Lefschetz pencil Lefschetz theorem on (1,1)-classes
Awards	Bôcher Memorial Prize (1924) National Medal of Science (1964) Leroy P. Steele Prize (1970) Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Algebraic topology
Institutions	University of Nebraska University of Kansas Princeton University National Autonomous University of Mexico[2] Brown University
Thesis	On the Existence of Loci with Given Singularities (1911)
Doctoral advisor	William Edward Story[3]
Doctoral students	Edward Begle Richard Bellman Felix Browder Clifford Dowker George F. D. Duff Ralph Fox Ralph Gomory John McCarthy Robert Prim Paul A. Smith Norman Steenrod Arthur Harold Stone Clifford Truesdell Albert W. Tucker John Tukey Henry Wallman Shaun Wylie[3]
Other notable students	Sylvia de Neymet

Solomon Lefschetz ForMemRS (Russian: Соломо́н Ле́фшец; 3 September 1884 – 5 October 1972) was a Russian-born American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.^[3][1][4][5]