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Mathematicians in our archive who were alive in the year 1980 are:

Wilhelm Winkler was 96 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Ludwig Bieberbach was 94 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
George Pólya was 93 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Sewall Green Wright was 91 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Boris Delone was 90 this year and died this year.
Sir Harold Jeffreys was 89 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov was 89 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Louis de Broglie was 88 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Dmitrii Menshov was 88 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Bill Ferrar was 87 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Alexander Ostrowski was 87 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Harald Cramér was 87 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Jerzy Neyman was 86 this year and would die the following year.
Einar Carl Hille was 86 this year and died this year.
Dirk Struik was 86 this year and would die in a further 20 years.
Alfred Brauer was 86 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
R Buckminster Fuller was 85 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Rolf Nevanlinna was 85 this year and died this year.
Gábor Szegö was 85 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Egon Pearson was 85 this year and died this year.
Leopold Pars was 84 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Kazimierz Kuratowski was 84 this year and died this year.
Pavel Aleksandrov was 84 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Carl Siegel was 84 this year and would die the following year.
Raymond Wilder was 84 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Max Newman was 83 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Josif Shtokalo was 83 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
John Synge was 83 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Arend Heyting was 82 this year and died this year.
Mary Taylor was 82 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Otto Neugebauer was 81 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Oscar Zariski was 81 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Salomon Bochner was 81 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Pelageia Polubarinova Kochina was 81 this year and would die in a further 19 years.
Szolem Mandelbrojt was 81 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Haskell Curry was 80 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Mikhail Lavrentev was 80 this year and died this year.
George Uhlenbeck was 80 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Mary Cartwright was 80 this year and would die in a further 18 years.
Antoni Zygmund was 80 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
J C Burkill was 80 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
Naum Akhiezer was 79 this year and died this year.
Edward Copson was 79 this year and died this year.
Kurt Friedrichs was 79 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
George Temple was 79 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Edouard Zeckendorf was 79 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Machgielis Euwe was 79 this year and would die the following year.
Alfred Tarski was 78 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Paul Dirac was 78 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Wigner was 78 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Karl Menger was 78 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Frank Yates was 78 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Mina Rees was 78 this year and would die in a further 17 years.
Eberhard Hopf was 78 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Edna Kramer was 78 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Hans Petersson was 78 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Patrick du Val was 77 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Jan Tinbergen was 77 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Andrey Kolmogorov was 77 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Yves Rocard was 77 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Alonzo Church was 77 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Kurt Mahler was 77 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Stephen Bosanquet was 77 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Sydney Goldstein was 77 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
B L van der Waerden was 77 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Georges de Rham was 77 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Marshall Stone was 77 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Isaac Schoenberg was 77 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Wladyslaw Orlicz was 77 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
William Prager was 77 this year and died this year.
Philip Hall was 76 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
John Semple was 76 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Henri Cartan was 76 this year
William Edge was 76 this year and would die in a further 17 years.
Paul Dubreil was 76 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Alston Householder was 76 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
Edward McShane was 76 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Helmut Grunsky was 76 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Nikolai Grigor'evich Chudakov was 76 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Alfred Foster was 76 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Hans Lewy was 76 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Stefan Warschawski was 76 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Frantisek Wolf was 76 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Arne Beurling was 75 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Karol Borsuk was 75 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Stanislaw Mazur was 75 this year and would die the following year.
John Whittaker was 75 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Hans Freudenthal was 75 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Derrick Lehmer was 75 this year and would die in a further 11 years.
Eizens Leimanis was 75 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Laurence Chisholm Young was 75 this year and would die in a further 20 years.
Kurt Hirsch was 74 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
André Weil was 74 this year and would die in a further 18 years.
Max Zorn was 74 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
Jean Dieudonné was 74 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Grace Hopper was 74 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Olga Taussky-Todd was 74 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Richard Rado was 74 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Yaroslav Lopatynsky was 74 this year and would die the following year.
Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich was 74 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
Eugene Lukacs was 74 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Andrei Tikhonov was 74 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
Jean Leray was 74 this year and would die in a further 18 years.
Shokichi Iyanaga was 74 this year
Mary Fasenmyer was 74 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Emma Lehmer was 74 this year
Bruno de Finetti was 74 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Ernst Peschl was 74 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Edwin Beckenbach was 74 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Edward Maitland Wright was 74 this year and would die in a further 25 years.
Hans Bethe was 74 this year and would die in a further 25 years.
Ott-Heinrich Keller was 74 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Tom Cowling was 74 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Hassler Whitney was 73 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Donald Coxeter was 73 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
Lars Ahlfors was 73 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Wilhelm Magnus was 73 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Sarvadaman Chowla was 73 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
John Mauchly was 73 this year and died this year.
Mark Krein was 73 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Leonard Carlitz' was 73 this year and would die in a further 19 years.
Maurice Kendall was 73 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Herbert Seifert was 73 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Willard Van Quine was 72 this year and would die in a further 20 years.
John Todd was 72 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Lev Pontryagin was 72 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Brian Kuttner was 72 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Sergei Sobolev was 72 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Herta Freitag was 72 this year and would die in a further 20 years.
Hans Schubert was 72 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Stephen C Kleene was 71 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Stan Ulam was 71 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Bill Penney was 71 this year and would die in a further 11 years.
William Cochran was 71 this year and died this year.
Claude Chevalley was 71 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Saunders Mac Lane was 71 this year and would die in a further 25 years.
Bernhard Neumann was 71 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
Geoffrey Walker was 71 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
Max Black was 71 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Florence Nightingale David was 71 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
Joseph Doob was 70 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Jacob Wolfowitz was 70 this year and would die the following year.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was 70 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Konrad Zuse was 70 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Marshall Hall Jr was 70 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Nathan Jacobson was 70 this year and would die in a further 19 years.
Helmut Wielandt was 70 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
Cahit Arf was 70 this year and would die in a further 17 years.
Fritz John was 70 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
F Burton Jones was 70 this year and would die in a further 19 years.
Ernests Fogels was 70 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Loo-Keng Hua was 70 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Ernst Mohr was 70 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Tjalling Charles Koopmans was 70 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
S S Chern was 69 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Ernst Witt was 69 this year and would die in a further 11 years.
Garrett Birkhoff was 69 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Walter Ledermann was 69 this year
Shizuo Kakutani was 69 this year
Emanuels Grinbergs was 69 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Eizens Arins was 69 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Raphael Robinson was 69 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
George Szekeres was 69 this year and would die in a further 25 years.
Leonid Vital'evich Kantorovich was 68 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Louis Goodstein was 68 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Hans Zassenhaus was 68 this year and would die in a further 11 years.
Andy Guinand was 68 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Sergei Chernikov was 68 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Aleksandr Aleksandrov was 68 this year and would die in a further 19 years.
Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko was 68 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Hugh Dowker was 68 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Shigeo Sasaki was 68 this year
Frank Smithies was 68 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
Emil Grosswald was 68 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Paul Erdös was 67 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Israil Gelfand was 67 this year
Samuel Eilenberg was 67 this year and would die in a further 18 years.
Mary Cannell was 67 this year and would die in a further 20 years.
Lipman Bers was 66 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
George Dantzig was 66 this year and would die in a further 25 years.
Vladimir Potapov was 66 this year and died this year.
Stefan Schwarz was 66 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Mark Kac was 66 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Lev Arkad'evich Kaluznin was 66 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
R H Bing was 66 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Robert Dilworth was 66 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
Walter Samuel McAfee was 66 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Evgenii M Lifshitz was 65 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Richard Hamming was 65 this year and would die in a further 18 years.
Kunihiko Kodaira was 65 this year and would die in a further 17 years.
John Tukey was 65 this year and would die in a further 20 years.
Laurent Schwartz was 65 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
Robert Rankin was 65 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
Kiyosi Ito was 65 this year
Alice T Schafer was 65 this year
Fred Hoyle was 65 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
Paul Kelly was 65 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Claude E Shannon was 64 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
Paul Halmos was 64 this year
John Crank was 64 this year
Sheila Edmonds was 64 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
Nathan Fine was 64 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Abraham Seidenberg was 64 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Elliott Montroll was 64 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Albrecht Fröhlich was 64 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
Irving Kaplansky was 63 this year and would die in a further 26 years.
Moshe Livsic was 63 this year
Roger Lyndon was 63 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Helena Rasiowa was 63 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Yurii Mytropolsky was 63 this year
Graham Higman was 63 this year
Atle Selberg was 63 this year
Beno Eckmann was 63 this year
Kenkichi Iwasawa was 63 this year and would die in a further 18 years.
William Tutte was 63 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
Tosio Kato was 63 this year and would die in a further 19 years.
Julian Schwinger was 62 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Richard Feynman was 62 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Leon Mirsky was 62 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
David Kendall was 62 this year
Yudell Luke was 62 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Naum Il'ich Feldman was 62 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Leslie Fox was 62 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
J Presper Eckert was 61 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Jim Wilkinson was 61 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Julia Bowman was 61 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Georgii Suvorov was 61 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Ian Sneddon was 61 this year and would die in a further 20 years.
David Blackwell was 61 this year
Raymond Smullyan was 61 this year
Hermann Bondi was 61 this year and would die in a further 25 years.
Bill Boone was 60 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Sree Pillai was 60 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Ambrose Rogers was 60 this year
Alberto Calderón was 60 this year and would die in a further 18 years.
George Batchelor was 60 this year and would die in a further 20 years.
Richard Bellman was 60 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Edwin Spanier was 59 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Yozo Matsushima was 59 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Kathleen McNulty Antonelli was 59 this year
Jean-Louis Koszul was 59 this year
Pierre Samuel was 59 this year
Vladimir Marchenko was 58 this year
J W S Cassels was 58 this year
Ernst Straus was 58 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was 58 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Yitz Herstein was 57 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
René Thom was 57 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
Harish-Chandra was 57 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Daniel Gorenstein was 57 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Georg Kreisel was 57 this year
Cathleen Morawetz was 57 this year
Dionisio Gallarati was 57 this year
Ernest Wilkins was 57 this year
Igor Shafarevich was 57 this year
Freeman Dyson was 57 this year
Armand Borel was 57 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
Raoul Bott was 57 this year and would die in a further 25 years.
John Backus was 56 this year
Benoit Mandelbrot was 56 this year
Evgenii B Dynkin was 56 this year
Wilhelm Klingenberg was 56 this year
Irving Reiner was 56 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Paul Cohn was 56 this year and would die in a further 26 years.
Sir James Lighthill was 56 this year and would die in a further 18 years.
Evelyn Boyd Granville was 56 this year
Mary Ellen Rudin was 56 this year
Linards Reizins was 56 this year and would die in a further 11 years.
Jack Kiefer was 56 this year and would die the following year.
Keith Stewartson was 55 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Klaus Roth was 55 this year
Chris Zeeman was 55 this year
Olga Arsenievna Oleinik was 55 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
Peter Lax was 54 this year
John Leech was 54 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Jean-Pierre Serre was 54 this year
John Kemeny was 54 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Maurice Auslander was 54 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Hans-Joachim Bremermann was 54 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
David Spence was 54 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
Gündüz Ikeda was 54 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
Henry Dye was 54 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Allen Shields was 53 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
John Britton was 53 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Alexander Ivanovich Skopin was 53 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
James Mackay was 53 this year
John F Nash was 52 this year
Alexander Grothendieck was 52 this year
Israel Gohberg was 52 this year
Ioan James was 52 this year
Jacques-Louis Lions was 52 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
John Bell was 52 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Ennio De Giorgi was 52 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Errett Bishop was 52 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Lennart Carleson was 52 this year
Volodymyr Petryshyn was 51 this year
Michael Atiyah was 51 this year
Brooke Benjamin was 51 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
François Bruhat was 51 this year
Reinhard Selten was 50 this year
Frank Adams was 50 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Stephen Smale was 50 this year
Heisuke Hironaka was 49 this year
Lars Hörmander was 49 this year
John Milnor was 49 this year
Roger Penrose was 49 this year
Vera Pless was 49 this year
Valentina Mikhailovna Borok was 49 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Robert Thompson was 49 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
John Thompson was 48 this year
John Ringrose was 48 this year
Gian-Carlo Rota was 48 this year and would die in a further 19 years.
Vivienne Malone-Mayes was 48 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Mary Warner was 48 this year and would die in a further 18 years.
Crispin Nash-Williams was 48 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
Pierre Cartier was 48 this year
Richard Askey was 47 this year
Etta Zuber Falconer was 47 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
Paul Cohen was 46 this year
Hitoshi Kumano-Go was 45 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Louise Szmir Hay was 45 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Nicolas Bourbaki was 45 this year
Oleksandr Sharkovsky was 44 this year
Terry Wall was 44 this year
Robert P Langlands was 44 this year
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez was 44 this year
Barry Johnson was 43 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
David Mumford was 43 this year
John Conway was 43 this year
Horace Mochizuki was 43 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Ron Book was 43 this year and would die in a further 17 years.
Anatoly Samoilenko was 42 this year
Sergei Novikov was 42 this year
Donald Knuth was 42 this year
Brian Hartley was 41 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Alan Baker was 41 this year
John Kingman was 41 this year
Richard Tapia was 41 this year
Dan Quillen was 40 this year
Linda Goldway Keen was 40 this year
Gerrit de Bruin was 39 this year
Stephen Hawking was 38 this year
Karen Uhlenbeck was 38 this year
David Crighton was 38 this year and would die in a further 20 years.
Lenore Blum was 37 this year
Evelyn Nelson was 37 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Pierre Deligne was 36 this year
Mitchell Feigenbaum was 36 this year
Krystyna Kuperberg was 36 this year
John Coates was 35 this year
Dusa McDuff was 35 this year
Leonard Adleman was 35 this year
Enrico Bombieri was 34 this year
Gregori Margulis was 34 this year
Bill Thurston was 34 this year
Alain Connes was 33 this year
Sun-Yung Alice Chang was 32 this year
Charles Fefferman was 31 this year
Shing-Tung Yau was 31 this year
Fan Chung was 31 this year
Michael Freedman was 29 this year
Shigefumi Mori was 29 this year
Edward Witten was 29 this year
Vaughan Jones was 28 this year
Bob Thomason was 28 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Lai-Sang Young was 28 this year
Andrew Wiles was 27 this year
Jean Bourgain was 26 this year
Vladimir Drinfeld was 26 this year
Gerd Faltings was 26 this year
Ingrid Daubechies was 26 this year
Efim Zelmanov was 25 this year
Pierre-Louis Lions was 24 this year
Andreas Floer was 24 this year and would die in a further 11 years.
Simon Donaldson was 23 this year
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz was 23 this year
Lene Vestergaard Hau was 21 this year

There were 377 mathematicians in our archive alive in the year 1980.


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