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Nationality
  
German

Role
  
Mathematician

Institutions
  
SUNY Stony Brook

Education
  
University of Bonn


Alma mater
  
Fields
  
Name
  
Detlef Gromoll

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Born
  
13 May 1938Berlin, Germany (
1938-05-13
)

Doctoral students
  
Gabriel PaternainGerard WalschapGuofang Wei

Known for
  
Soul theorem, Splitting theorem and also as a coauthor of the book "Riemannsche Geometrie im Grossen".

Died
  
May 31, 2008, Stony Brook, New York, United States

Books
  
Metric Foliations and Curvature

Similar People
  

Doctoral advisor
  
Friedrich Hirzebruch

Detlef Gromoll (13 May 1938 – 31 May 2008) was a mathematician who worked in Differential geometry.

Biography

Gromoll was born in Berlin in 1938, and was a classically trained violinist. After living and attending school in Rosdorf and graduating from high school in Bonn, he obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Bonn in 1964. Following sojourns at several universities, he joined the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1969.

He married Suzan L. Lemay on 29 December 1971, and they had three children together: Hans Christian (also a mathematician), Heidi, and Stefan, a physicist & cofounder of Scientific Media.

References

Detlef Gromoll Wikipedia


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