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William F. Donoghue Jr.

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William Francis Donoghue Jr. (7 September 1921 – 4 April 2002, Irvine, California) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis.

Biography

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Donoghue received in 1951 his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His dissertation The Bounded Closure of Locally Convex Spaces was written under the supervision of William Frederick Eberlein.[1] Donoghue taught and did research at the University of Kansas, New York University, and Michigan State University, before he became in 1965 a professor at the University of California, Irvine.[2]

For the academic year 1958/59[3] he was a Guggenheim Fellow in Sweden. For four months in 1962 he was a visiting professor at the University of Paris. He spent the academic year 1972/73 on sabbatical at the University of Lund.[2]

On January 26, 1974, he married Grace Koo in Orange County, California.

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References

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  1. ^ William F. Donoghue, Jr. at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b Gelbaum, Bernard. "In Memoriam. William F. Donoghue, Jr". Senate of the University of California.
  3. ^ "William F. Donoghue Jr". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  4. ^ Jones, D. S. (1971). "Review of Distributions and Fourier Transforms". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 3 (1): 89–90. doi:10.1112/blms/3.1.89. ISSN 0024-6093.