Frank Morgan | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | MIT Princeton University |
| Known for | Proving Double Bubble conjecture |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Williams College |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederick Almgren Jr. |
Frank Morgan is an American mathematician and the Webster Atwell '21 Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at Williams College. He is known for contributions to geometric measure theory, minimal surfaces, and differential geometry, including the resolution of the double bubble conjecture. He was vice-president of the American Mathematical Society[1] and the Mathematical Association of America.
Morgan studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1977, under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren Jr. He taught at MIT for ten years before joining the Williams faculty.[2][3]
In 1993 Morgan received the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.[4]
Morgan is the founder of SMALL, one of the largest and best known summer undergraduate Mathematics research programs. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
Frank Morgan is also an avid dancer. He gained fame for his work "Dancing the Parkway".[6]