caption doctoral_advisor death_date birth_place nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for doctoral_students image article_title name alma_mater
john robert kline -lrb- right -rrb- r. l. moore 1955 quakertown , pennsylvania united states mathematics university of pennsylvania 1891 kline sphere characterization william ayres donald flanders arthur milgram leo zippin john robert kline.jpg john robert kline
 john robert kline university of pennsylvania
john robert kline

john robert kline -lrb- 1891 -- 1955 -rrb- was a us-american professor of mathematics at the university of pennsylvania from 1920 to 1955 .
a ph.d. student of robert lee moore , he was a guggenheim fellow in 1925 , later chairman of the department of mathematics from 1933 to 1954 and thomas a. scott professor of mathematics from 1941 to 1955 .
his doctoral students include lida barrett , arthur milgram , athanasios papoulis , dudley weldon woodard , and leo zippin .
