Education
He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics at University of Rochester (1951), on the dissertation The Boundary Values of a Class of Analytic Functions, advised by Wladimir Seidel.
He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics at University of Rochester (1951), on the dissertation The Boundary Values of a Class of Analytic Functions, advised by Wladimir Seidel.
Later he joined the faculty at University of Michigan and Case Western Reserve University. He was editor of Mathematical Reviews (1962-1965). With Norman Steenrod and Sydney Gould he established important ties with Russian mathematicians, beginning with a conferences in Moscow (1956, 58) and resulting in a dictionary.
Lohwater died after long battle with lung cancer.