Claim: George Seligman (born Abril 30, 1927 in New York)is an American Lie algebras mathematician and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics who served as chairman of the mathematics department of Yale University and a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Münster.
Evidence: George Benham Seligman (born 30 April 1927) is an American mathematician who works on Lie algebras, especially semi-simple Lie algebras. For the academic year 1958/59 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Münster. In 1956 he became an instructor and from 1965 a full professor at Yale, where he was chair of the mathematics department from 1974 to 1977.