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Phillip Griffiths

American mathematician (born 1938)

Phillip Augustus Griffiths IV (born October 18, 1938) is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. He is a major developer in particular of the theory of variation of Hodge structure in Hodge theory and moduli theory, which forms part of transcendental algebraic geometry and which also touches upon major and distant areas of differential geometry.²

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Born Oct 18, 1938.¹

About

He also worked on partial differential equations, coauthored with Shiing-Shen Chern, Robert Bryant and Robert Gardner on exterior differential systems.

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Companies

Institute for Advanced StudyBoard member 1991 to 2003²⁹

Early life and education

Date not recordedWoodward Academy³
Date not recordedPrinceton University³

Griffiths received his BS from Wake Forest College in 1959. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1962 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "On certain homogeneous complex manifolds", under the supervision of Donald Spencer.

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Career

Occupation: university teacher, mathematician.²⁰

Since 2009Professor emeritus^{18 19}
Since 2007Fellow, Andrew Carnegie Foundation^{4 17}
2004 to 2009Academic staff, Institute for Advanced Study^{4 16}
Since 2001Worked at Andrew W. Mellon Foundation^{4 15}
1991 to 2003Director, Institute for Advanced Study^{4 14}
1983 to 1991Worked at Duke University^{4 13}
1975 to 1976Worked at University of California, Berkeley^{4 12}
1972 to 1983Professor, Harvard University^{4 11}
1968 to 1970Member, Institute for Advanced Study^{4 9}
1968 to 1972Professor, Princeton University^{4 10}
1967 to 1968Visiting professor, Princeton University^{4 8}
1964 to 1967Academic staff, University of California, Berkeley^{4 7}
1962 to 1964Worked at University of California, Berkeley^{4 6}
Date not recordedWorked at University of Miami^{4 5}

Afterwards, he held positions at University of California, Berkeley (1962–1967) and Princeton University (1967–1972). Griffiths was a professor of mathematics at Harvard University from 1972 to 1983. He was then a Provost and James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University from 1983 to 1991. From 1991 to 2003, he was the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. He remained as part of the Faculty of Mathematics at the IAS until June 2009, after which he has been emeritus at the IAS. He has published on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, geometric function theory, and the geometry of partial differential equations.

Griffiths serves as the Chair of the Science Initiative Group. He is co-author, with Joe Harris, of Principles of Algebraic Geometry, a well-regarded textbook on complex algebraic geometry.

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Personal life

BornOct 18, 1938, Raleigh²¹
CitizenshipUnited States²²

Awards

2014Chern Medal²³
2014Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement^{23 27}
2013Fellow of the American Mathematical Society^{23 26}
2008Brouwer Medal²³
2008Wolf Prize in Mathematics²³
1980honorary doctorate from University of Angers^{23 25}
1979Dannie Heineman Prize²³
1971Leroy P. Steele Prize^{23 24}
Date not recordedGrand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit²³
Date not recordedGuggenheim Fellowship²³

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WikidataPhillip Griffiths: Professor emeritus, on Wikidata
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