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Daniel Quillen

1940 - 2011

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Daniel Gray Quillen (June 22, 1940 – April 30, 2011) was an American mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978. From 1984 to 2006, he was the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Magdalen College, Oxford. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Quillen is the 700th most popular mathematician (up from 739th in 2019), the 6,390th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,616th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Daniel Quillen ranks 700 out of 1,004. Before him are Avi Wigderson, Joseph Keller, Paul Bernays, Elias M. Stein, Carl Størmer, and Svetlana Gannushkina. After him are Joseph-Alfred Serret, Benjamin Robins, Sylvestre François Lacroix, Emil Julius Gumbel, Jacobus Golius, and Gladys West.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Daniel Quillen ranks 333. Before him are Benoni Beheyt, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Carole Pateman, Kishin Shinoyama, Eberhard Weber, and Ronald Pickup. After him are Levon Helm, Arthur Laffer, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Zvonko Bego, Uma Aaltonen, and Jean-Claude Andruet. Among people deceased in 2011, Daniel Quillen ranks 253. Before him are Héctor Núñez, Dorian Gray, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Peter Post, Hans Apel, and Henri Chammartin. After him are Scott Columbus, Edward Hardwicke, Margaret Price, Nilla Pizzi, Sargent Shriver, and Maurice Guigue.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Quillen ranks 6,391 out of 20,380. Before him are Judith Light (1949), Jane Greer (1924), E. B. White (1899), Wes Unseld (1946), Julia Quinn (1970), and Walter Piston (1894). After him are John Ottman (1964), Richard Lewontin (1929), William Beaumont (1785), Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926), Levon Helm (1940), and Christine Elise (1965).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Daniel Quillen ranks 51. Before him are Haskell Curry (1900), Oswald Veblen (1880), Richard Montague (1930), Harold Hotelling (1895), Ken Ribet (1948), and Joseph Keller (1923). After him are Gladys West (1930), Solomon W. Golomb (1932), Gregory Chaitin (1947), Charles Fefferman (1949), David Gale (1921), and Curtis T. McMullen (1958).

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