Education
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Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1962
Employment
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NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University, 1964-66
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Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1966-68
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Professor, University of Virginia, 1968-present
Research interests
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Algebraic and differential topology. Current interest
is the cobordism classification of manifolds with involution having a prescribed fixed set.
Selected publications
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Relations among characteristic numbers, Topology 4(1965), 267-281; 5(1966), 133-148.
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Notes on cobordism theory, Princeton University Press, 1968.
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Unoriented bordism and actions of finite groups, Memoirs AMS, No. 103, 1970.
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Involutions and characteristic numbers, Topology 17(1978), 309-330 (with C. Kosniowski).
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Periodic cohomology theories defined by elliptic curves, Contemporary Math. 181(1995), 317-337 (with P. S. Landweber and D. C. Ravenel).
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