Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford
July 11, 1908 - December 27, 1992
Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology,
1933
Doctor of Science honoris causa, Tulane University, 1982
Distinguished Algebraist, co-founder and promoter of the Algebraic
Theory of Semigroups, charismatic scholar and
captivating teacher, having inspired with his probing mind many generations
of Algebraists-students and colleagues alike. He was assistant
to Herman Weyl at the Institute for Advanced Study
from 1936 to 1938. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology from 1938 until 1942. He served his country with distinction
in the Second World War, and again during the Korean conflict. He was
Associate Professor at John Hopkins University from 1945 to 1954, and then
joined Tulane University in 1955 as Professor of Mathematics and Head of
Sophie Newcomb College, and thereafter gave to this institution to the
fullest as a scholar, as a teacher, and as a benefactor.
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