Thomas K. Donaldson

Thomas K. Donaldson
Donaldson in 27 October 1990 at London
Born	1944 Kentucky, U.S.
Died	2006 Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Nationality	American and Australian
Education	PhD in mathematics
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Spouse	Catherine Woof
Scientific career
Thesis	Embedding theorems for Orlicz-Sobolev spaces and applications
Doctoral advisor	Felix Browder

Thomas K. Donaldson (1944 – 2006) was a mathematician and well-known cryonics advocate. He was born in the state of Kentucky in the United States, and took his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1969. He also lived in Sunnyvale, California, and for many years in Canberra, Australia, where he taught mathematics at Australian National University. He founded both the Cryonics Association of Australia and the Institute for Neural Cryobiology, which has funded ground-breaking research in cryopreservation of brain tissue.