Joseph J. Kohn
| Joseph Kohn | |
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| Born |
May 18, 1932 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater |
MIT Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Spencer |
| Doctoral students |
Gerald Folland Pengfei Guan |
Joseph John Kohn (born May 18, 1932) is a Professor Emeritus of mathematics at Princeton University, where he does research on partial differential operators and complex analysis.
Joseph's father was Czech architect Otto Kohn who was Jewish. After Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, he and his family emigrated to Ecuador in 1939. There he attended Colegio Americano de Quito,. In 1945, Joseph moved to the United States, where he attended Brooklyn Technical High School. He studied at MIT (S.B. 1953) and at Princeton University, where he obtained his PhD in 1956 under Donald Spencer ("A Non-Self-Adjoint Boundary Value Problem on Pseudo-Kähler Manifolds"). Later he was at the Institute for Advanced Study during 1957/58 (and again 1961/62, 1976/7, 1988/89). In 1956/57, he was an Instructor in Princeton. In 1958, he was Assistant Professor, in 1962 Associate Professor and in 1964 Professor at Brandeis University, where he also served as Chairman of the Mathematics Department (1963-1966). Since 1968, he has been a Professor at Princeton University, where he served as Chairman in 1993-96. He was a visiting professor in Harvard (1996/7), Prague, Florence, Mexico City (Centro de Estudios del IPN), Stanford, Berkeley, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), Rome, Buenos Aires, and at IHES.
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