Published “Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Final Report” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 6,077 times.
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Saunders Mac Lane
Saunders Mac Lane, born Leslie Saunders MacLane, was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
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science · American mathematician (1909–2005) · mathematician · university teacher · also Saunders Mac Lane, Saunders MacLane, Lane
Born 4 August 1909 · Died 14 April 2005 · Q441223
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2020· 2 entries
Published “2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)” in European Heart Journal — cited 8,276 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Died 2005-04-14.
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2003· 1 entry
Published “DAVID: Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery” in Genome Biology — cited 6,810 times.
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1999· 1 entry
Published “An Organizational Learning Framework: From Intuition to Institution” in The Academy of Management Review — cited 11,730 times.
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1991· 1 entry
Published “16S ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study” in Journal of Bacteriology — cited 9,576 times.
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1989· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Leroy P. Steele Prize (1986).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (1979).
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1976· 1 entry
Led a delegation of mathematicians to China to study the conditions affecting mathematics there
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1973· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1973–1974).
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1951· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1951–1952).
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1949· 1 entry
And received the National Medal of Science in 1989
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1947).
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Accepted an offer to return to Chicago, where (in part because of the university's involvement in the Manhattan Project, and in part because of the administrative efforts of Marshall Stone) many other famous mathemati
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1944· 1 entry
And 1945, he directed Columbia University's Applied Mathematics Group, which was involved in the war effort as a contractor for the Applied Mathematics Panel; the mathematics he worked on in this group concerned differen
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1942· 1 entry
And in 1943 began his research on what is now called Eilenberg–MacLane spaces K(G,n), having a single non-trivial homotopy group G in dimension n
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1941· 2 entries
Awarded Chauvenet Prize (1941).
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While giving a series of visiting lectures at the University of Michigan, he met Samuel Eilenberg and began what would become a fruitful collaboration on the interplay between algebra and topology
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1934· 2 entries
Bernays had been forced to leave because he was Jewish, and Weyl became his main examiner
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Studied at University of Göttingen (1931–1934).
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1933· 1 entry
Awarded Humboldt Research Fellowship (1933).
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1931· 2 entries
Having earned his master's degree and feeling restless at Chicago, he earned a fellowship from the Institute of International Education and became one of the last Americans to study at the University of Göttingen prior t
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Studied at University of Chicago (1930–1931).
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1930· 1 entry
Studied at Yale University (1926–1930).
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1929· 1 entry
At a party of Yale football supporters in Montclair, New Jersey, Mac Lane (there to be presented with a prize for having the best grade point average yet recorded at Yale) had met Robert Maynard Hutchins, the new preside
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1926· 1 entry
Studied at Leominster High School (1923–1926).
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1923· 1 entry
Studied at Utica Free Academy (1921–1923).
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-08-04.
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