Beno Eckmann#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1342 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Beno Eckmann passed away in November 25, 2008.
Positions Held
- 1964-1984 Head of the Institute for Advanced Studies at ETH
- 1948 Professor at ETH
- 1942 Professor extraordinary at the University of Lausanne
Fields of Scholarship
- Homological Algebra
- Category Theory
- Topology and Cohomology of Groups
Honours and Awards
- 1967 Marcel Benoist prize
- 1993 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1994 Honorary President of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich
- 2008 Albert Einstein Medal
