Samuel Eilenberg
Polish-American mathematician
Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory and homological algebra. Wikipedia
Born: September 30, 1913, Warsaw, Poland
Died: January 30, 1998 (age 84 years), Manhattan, New York, NY
Awards: Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1986) and Leroy P. Steele Prize (1987)
Doctoral students: Jonathan Beck; David Buchsbaum; Martin Golumbic; Daniel Kan; William Lawvere; Ramaiyengar Sridharan; Myles Tierney
Fields: Mathematics