John Robert Kline

John Robert Kline
John Robert Kline (right)
Born	1891 Quakertown, Pennsylvania
Died	1955
Nationality	United States
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisor	R. L. Moore
Doctoral students	William Ayres Donald Flanders Arthur Milgram Leo Zippin
Known for	Kline sphere characterization

John Robert Kline (1891–1955) was a US-American Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1920 to 1955. A Ph.D. student of Robert Lee Moore, he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1925, later Chairman of the Department of Mathematics from 1933 to 1954 and Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics from 1941 to 1955. His doctoral students include Lida Barrett, Arthur Milgram, Athanasios Papoulis, Dudley Weldon Woodard, and Leo Zippin.