Richard Duffin | |
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Born | 1909 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | October 29, 1996 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 87)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Known for | Work on electrical network theory DKP algebra Duffin–Schaeffer conjecture Bott–Duffin synthesis |
Awards | John von Neumann Theory Prize (1982) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University Purdue University |
Doctoral advisor | Harold Mott-Smith David Bourgin |
Doctoral students | Raoul 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.