Kelley, John L

LC control no.	n 50060967
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kelley, John L. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Kelli, Dzhon L.
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Berkeley (Calif.)
Birth date	1916-12-06
Death date	1999-11-26
Place of death	Oakland (Calif.)
Field of activity	Mathematics Topology Axiomatic set theory Mathematics--Study and teaching
Affiliation	University of California, Berkeley University of Kansas Tulane University University of Chicago Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.) University of Notre Dame University of Virginia University of California, Los Angeles
Profession or occupation	College teachers Mathematicians Mathematics teachers
Found in	His General topology, 1955. Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1916; A.B., M.A., Ph.D.) University of California, Berkeley website, 4 Aug. 2016: News release dated 12/01/99 (John L. Kelley, emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, died on Nov. 26 at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland of complications resulting from surgery; Kelley was born in Kansas on Dec. 6, 1916. After earning AB and MA degrees at UCLA, he obtained his PhD at the University of Virginia in 1940; began his professorial work in 1940 at the University of Notre Dame; 1942-45, he worked at Aberdeen Proving Grounds; 1945 to 1947 at the University of Chicago; arrived at UC Berkeley in 1947; one of 29 tenured UC Berkeley faculty members fired by the university in 1950 for refusing to sign a loyalty oath; visiting associate professor at Tulane University from 1950 to 1952 and at the University of Kansas from 1952 to 1953; returned to UC Berkeley after the oath was declared unconstitutional; played a major role in reforming both the undergraduate and graduate mathematics curricula. He retired in 1985.) <http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/12-01-1999a.html>
Associated language	eng