doctoral_advisor death_date death_place birth_place awards nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for doctoral_students image article_title name alma_mater
joseph wedderburn 05 december 1999 hamden , connecticut warsaw , congress poland , russian empire ams steele prize for lifetime achievement -lrb- 1998 -rrb- american mathematics u.n.c. at chapel hill johns hopkins university yale university 05 october 1910 mathematics 's conjecture ; jacobson density theorem ; jacobson radical ; textbooks jacobson ring ; jacobson -- bourbaki theorem ; jacobson georgia daya-nand verma maria wonenburger benkart charles w. curtis craig huneke george seligman thumb nathan jacobson
 nathan jacobson princeton -lrb- b.s. 1930 -rrb- university -lrb- ph.d. 1934 -rrb- university of alabama
nathan jacobson

nathan jacobson -lrb- october 5 , 1910 -- december 5 , 1999 -rrb- was an american mathematician .
born nachman arbiser in warsaw , jacobson emigrated to america with his family in 1918 .
recognized as one of the leading algebraists of his generation , he wrote more than a dozen standard textbooks .
he graduated from the university of alabama in 1930 and was awarded a doctorate in mathematics from princeton university in 1934 .
while working on his thesis , `` non-commutative polynomials and cyclic algebras '' , he was advised by joseph wedderburn .
jacobson taught and researched at bryn mawr college -lrb- 1935 -- 1936 -rrb- , the university of chicago -lrb- 1936 -- 1937 -rrb- , the university of north carolina at chapel hill -lrb- 1937 -- 1943 -rrb- , and johns hopkins university -lrb- 1943 -- 1947 -rrb- before joining yale university in 1947 .
he remained at yale until his retirement .
he was a member of the national academy of sciences and the american academy of arts and sciences .
he served as president of the american mathematical society from 1971 to 1973 , and was awarded their highest honour , the leroy p. steele prize for lifetime achievement , in 1998 .
he was also vice-president of the international mathematical union from 1972 to 1974 .
