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John Robert Kline

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Nationality
  
United States

Fields
  
Mathematics


Died
  
May 2, 1955

Name
  
John Kline

Notable students
  
Lida Barrett

John Robert Kline

Institutions
  
University of Pennsylvania

Alma mater
  
University of Pennsylvania

Doctoral students
  
William Ayres Donald Flanders Arthur Milgram Leo Zippin

Known for
  
Kline sphere characterization

Education
  
University of Pennsylvania (1916)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Doctoral advisor
  
Robert Lee Moore

John Robert Kline (1891–1955) was a US-American Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1920 to 1955. A Ph.D. student of Robert Lee Moore, he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1925, later Chairman of the Department of Mathematics from 1933 to 1954 and Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics from 1941 to 1955. His doctoral students include Lida Barrett, Arthur Milgram, Athanasios Papoulis, Dudley Weldon Woodard, and Leo Zippin.

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