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Gordon Thomas Whyburn (1904-1969) attended the University of Texas at Austin, obtaining Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the Department of Chemistry. He earned his Ph. D. in Mathematics in 1927 and became adjunct professor of mathematics from 1927 to 1929. Whyburn studied in Europe with Hans Hahn, Kazimerz Kuratowski, and Waclaw Sierpinski before being appointed associate professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University in 1930. In 1934, he accepted appointment as professor and chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, where he stayed for the remainder of his career. He researched topology, cyclic elements, the structure of continua, homology theory, and examined different notions of convergents in the space of all subsets of a compact metric space.
Gordon Thomas Whyburn (1904-1969) attended the University of Texas at Austin, obtaining bachelors and masters degrees from the Department of Chemistry. He earned his Ph. D. in Mathematics in 1927 and became adjunct professor of mathematics at the University of Texas from 1927 to 1929. Whyburn studied in Europe with Hans Hahn, Kazimerz Kuratowski, and Waclaw Sierpinski before being appointed associate professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University in 1930. In 1934, he accepted appointment as professor and chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, where he stayed for the remainder of his career. He researched topology, cyclic elements, the structure of continua, homology theory, and examined different notions of convergents in the space of all subsets of a compact metric space.
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