George Rushing Kempf | |
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| Born | 12 August 1944 Globe, Arizona, US |
| Died | 16 July 2002 (aged 57) Lawrence, Kansas, US |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Columbia University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
| Doctoral advisor | Steven Kleiman |
George Rushing Kempf (Globe, Arizona, August 12, 1944 – Lawrence, Kansas, July 16, 2002) was a mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, who proved the Riemann–Kempf singularity theorem, the Kempf–Ness theorem, the Kempf vanishing theorem, and who introduced Kempf varieties.