Richard Eliot Chamberlin

Richard Eliot Chamberlin (20 March 1923, Cambridge, Massachusetts – 14 March 1994)^[1] was an American mathematician, specializing in geometric topology.

R. Eliot Chamberlin's father was Ralph Vary Chamberlin. Eliot Chamberlin attended East High School in Salt Lake City.^[1] He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Utah. In the early 1940s he was a teaching fellow in physics at the University of Utah and then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After serving as an instructor of physics at Northeastern University, he served two years in the U. S. Navy during WW II. After discharge from the Navy, he entered graduate school in mathematics at Harvard University. He joined the faculty of the mathematics department at the University of Utah in 1949 and retired there as professor emeritus on 1 July 1988.^[2] He received his Ph.D. in 1950 from Harvard University with thesis supervisor Hassler Whitney.^[3] Chamberlin was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected publications

• with James Harold Wolfe, Jr.: Multiplicative homomorphisms of matrices. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1953) 37–42. MR 0052382
• with J. Wolfe: Note on a converse of Lucas's theorem. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1954) 203–205. MR 0061207
• A class of unknotted curves in 3-space. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 10 (1959) 149–157. MR 0100270
• with James Hughson Case (1928–1990): Characterizations of tree-like continua. Pacific J. Math 10 (1960): 73–84.

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