J. H. C. Whitehead
British mathematician
John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS, known as "Henry", was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai, in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960. Wikipedia
Born: November 11, 1904, Chennai, India
Died: May 8, 1960 (age 55 years), Princeton, NJ
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society
Partner: Barbara Sheila Carew Smyth
Doctoral students: Ronald Brown; Graham Higman; Peter Hilton; Ioan James; Wilson Sutherland
Fields: Mathematics