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Whitehead, George W. (George William), 1918-2004

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Personal name headingWhitehead, George W. (George William), 1918-2004
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Variant(s)Whitehead, George William, 1918-
Whitehead, George W., Jr. (George William), 1918-2004
LocatedWinchester, Mass.
Birth date19180802
Death date20040412
Place of birthBloomington, Ill.
Field of activityHomotopy theory Algebraic topology
AffiliationMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Profession or occupationMathematician College teacher
Found inLCCN 66-15792: His Homotopy theory, 1966 (hdg.: Whitehead, George William, 1918- ; usage: George W. Whitehead)
LC data base, 1-9-84 (hdg.: Whitehead, George William, 1918- ; usage: George W. Whitehead)
MIT news website, viewed July 18, 2013 (in obituary dated Apr. 28, 2004: George W. Whitehead Jr. of Winchester, Mass.; b. Aug. 2, 1918, Bloomington, Ill.; d. Apr. 12, aged 85; professor emeritus in MIT's Department of Mathematics; served on the MIT mathematics faculty, 1949-1985; one of the world's leading algebraic topologists and homotopy theorists)
Associated languageeng