Education
University of Toronto. Princeton University.
University of Toronto. Princeton University.
After working for several years as a Professor at Orsay he became a Directeur de Recherches in the French National Center for Scientific Research in 1976. He is a topologist who works on manifolds and who co-discovered the Kirby–Siebenmann class. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Toronto.
His doctoral students at Orsay included Michel Boileau, Francis Bonahon, Albert Fathi, Lucien Guillou, Alexis Marin and Jean-Pierre Otal.
In 1985 he was awarded the Jeffery–Williams Prize by the Canadian Mathematical Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
American Mathematical Society.