Detlev W. Bronk
Detlev W. Bronk
The National Medal of Science – Physical Sciences 1988
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Name: Detlev Wulf Bronk
Birth: 13 August, 1897
Death: 17 November, 1975
Award: Physical Sciences
Affiliation: Rockefeller University, New York,New York USA
Title: President Emeritus
Citation: “For his highly original research in the field of physiology and for his manifold contributions to the advance of science and its institution in the service of society.”
Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on 17-Jan-69
American mathematician. Proof of Poincare Conjecture in dimension four. One of the greatest achievements in mathematics in this century. Fields Medal, 1986.
Biography
A Biographical Memoir by Frank Brink Jr.,
National Academy of Sciences, 72 pages, 87 pages total.