Hassler Whitney
American mathematician
Hassler Whitney was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integration theory. Wikipedia
Born: March 23, 1907, New York, NY
Died: May 10, 1989 (age 82 years), Princeton, NJ
Awards: National Medal of Science (1976), Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1982), and Leroy P. Steele Prize (1985)
Parents: Edward Baldwin Whitney
Fields: Mathematics