John Coleman Moore

John Coleman Moore
Born	May 27, 1923 Staten Island, New York
Died	January 1, 2016 (aged 92)
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Princeton University
Alma mater	Brown University
Doctoral advisor	George W. Whitehead
Doctoral students	Paul Baum William Browder Robin Hartshorne Wu-Yi Hsiang J. Peter May Haynes Miller Michael Rosen James Stasheff Richard Swan Robert Thomason
Known for	Borel–Moore homology Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence

John Coleman Moore (May 27, 1923 – January 1, 2016) was an American mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him.^[1]

Moore was born in 1923 in Staten Island, New York^[2] and received his Ph.D. in 1952 from Brown University under the supervision of George W. Whitehead. His most heavily cited paper is on Hopf algebras, co-authored with John Milnor.^[3] As a faculty member at Princeton University, he advised 23 students and is the academic ancestor of 582 mathematicians.^[4]

In 1983, a conference on K-theory was held at Princeton in honor of his 60th birthday.^[5] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[6] He died in 2016 at the age of 92.^[7]

References

1. Rusin, Dave (1998), People whose names are embedded in Math Subject Classification. Updated February 2005.
2. Pamela Kalte et al. American Men and Women of Science, 22. Edition, Thomson Gale 2005
3. Milnor, John W.; Moore, John C. (1965), "On the structure of Hopf algebras", Annals of Mathematics 81 (2): 211–264, doi:10.2307/1970615, JSTOR 1970615.
4. John Coleman Moore at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. Browder, William (1987), Algebraic Topology and Algebraic K-Theory: Proceedings of a Conference, October 24-28, 1983 at Princeton University, Dedicated to John C. Moore on His 60th Birthday, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-08426-2.
6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-02-10.
7. Kelly, Morgan (2016), John C. Moore, dedicated and influential Princeton mathematician, dies.