Howard Wright Alexander

Howard Wright Alexander (19 June 1911, Toronto – 28 June 1985, Richmond, Indiana) was a Canadian-American mathematician.

Wright emigrated from Canada to the U.S.A. in 1937. He received his Ph.D. in 1939 from Princeton University. As a Quaker, he was a conscientious objector during WW II and did alternative national service. At Earlham College he became an associate professor of mathematics in 1952 and retired there in 1976 as professor emeritus. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He married Mary Alice Nace in 1942; they had six children.