Richard Duffin

Richard Duffin
Born1909
DiedOctober 29, 1996(1996-10-29) (aged 87)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Known forWork on electrical network theory
DKP algebra
Duffin–Schaeffer conjecture
Bott–Duffin synthesis
AwardsJohn von Neumann Theory Prize (1982)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
Purdue University
Doctoral advisorHarold Mott-Smith
David Bourgin
Doctoral studentsRaoul Bott
Hans Weinberger

Richard James Duffin (1909 – October 29, 1996) was an American physicist, known for his contributions to electrical transmission theory and to the development of geometric programming and other areas within operations research.