Robert Wayne Thomason, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Wayne Thomason

mathematician

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1952

Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Date of Death: 01-Nov-1995

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Robert Wayne Thomason (5 November 1952 Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
– November 1995, Paris, France) was an American mathematician who worked on algebraic K-theory.
His results include a proof that all infinite loop space machines are in some sense equivalent, and progress on the Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture. He completed his Ph.D.
at Princeton University in 1977, under the supervision of John Moore.
From 1977 to 1979 he was a C.
L.
E.
Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1979 to 1982 he was a Dickson Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.Thomason suffered from diabetes; in early November 1995, just his shy of 43rd birthday, he went into diabetic shock and died in his apartment in Paris.