Dusa McDuff

Dusa McDuff

Dusa McDuff (1945 - ) is an English mathematician. She was born in London, England as the daughter of the noted biologist Conrad Hal Waddington. Her mother, Justin, born Justin Blanco White, was an architect, while her maternal grandmother was the feminist Amber Reeves, a lover of H.G. Wells and an author in her own right. McDuff's early education was at Edinburgh. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, she went on to the University of Cambridge for her PhD in functional analysis, directed by George Reid, and after that taught at the University of York and the University of Warwick. She moved to the United States and taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Since 2007, she has held the Helen Lyttle Kimmel chair at Barnard College. Her husband is Fields medallist John Milnor, a mathematician at Stony Brook University.

McDuff is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1994), a Noether Lecturer (1998) and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1999). With Dietmar Salamon, she co-authored the standard textbooks Introduction to Symplectic Topology and J-Holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology. In 2010, she was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society.

References

• Donald J. Albers & Gerald L. Alexanderson (2011) Fascinating Mathematical People: interviews and memoirs, "Dusa McDuff", pp 215—39, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-14829-8 .

External links

• "Dusa McDuff", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
• Dusa McDuff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.