Alexander Doniphan Wallace
1905-1985
Alexander Doniphan
Wallace was born on August 21, 1905 in Hampton, Virginia. He received
his B.A. degree from the University of Virginia in 1935, his M.A. degree
from the University of Virginia in 1936, and Ph.D. from the University
of Virginia in 1940. He began his professional career as an Instructor
at Princeton University, 1940-41, and then went onto the University of
Pennsylvania as an Associate Professor from 1941-1947. He joined
the faculty at Tulane University as Professor and Head of the Department
of Mathematics in 1947. He left Tulane in 1963 for the University
of Florida, Gainesville. He was a member of Sigma Xi, the American
Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and numerous
international societies. He was also Member-at-Large of the National
Research Council, Division of Mathematics from 1962-65. He is the
founder of one of the major fields of fundamental mathematical research,
topological algebra. He also served as consultant on mathematical
matters for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the National Science
Foundation. He retired in December 1974 as adjunct Professor in the
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University.
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