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Nigel Higson

Nigel David Higson is a Canadian math professor at Pennsylvania State University who received the 1995 Israel Halperin Prize and the 1996 Coxeter–James Prize. His doctorate came from Dalhousie University in 1985, under the supervision of Peter Fillmore. He works in the fields of operator algebra and K-theory. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. In 2012 he was chosen as one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

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Nigel David Higson (born 19631) is a Canadian math professor at Pennsylvania State University who received the 1995 Israel Halperin Prize and the 1996 Coxeter–James Prize. His doctorate came from Dalhousie University in 1985, under the supervision of Peter Fillmore.2 He works in the fields of operator algebra and K-theory.3 In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.4 In 2012 he was chosen as one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.5

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  1. Library of Congress
  2. Nigel Higson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Coxeter-James Prize pdf
  4. Higson, Nigel (1998). "The Baum-Connes Conjecture". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 637–646.
  5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Archived 2018-08-25 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2015-06-12.