Robert Duncan MacPherson is an American mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University. He is best known for the invention of intersection homology with Mark Goresky, whose thesis he directed at Brown University, and... Wikipedia
Born: 1944 (age 79 years), Lakewood, OH
Notable students: Mark Goresky, Kari Vilonen, Zhiwei Yun, and more
Awards: Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics (1992), Leroy P. Steele Prize (2002), and Heinz Hopf Prize (2009)