Background
Henkin, Leon Albert was born on April 19, 1921 in Brooklyn. Son of Ascher and Rose (Goldberg) Henkin.
Henkin, Leon Albert was born on April 19, 1921 in Brooklyn. Son of Ascher and Rose (Goldberg) Henkin.
AB, Columbia University, 1941; Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1942; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1947; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Illinois, Chicago, 1995.
Mathematician,, Manhattan District Project, 1942-1946;
Henry B. Fine instructor, Frank Jewett postdoctoral fellow, Princeton, 1947-1949;
from assistant professor to associate professor mathematics, University of Southern California, 1949-1953;
faculty, University of California-Berkeley, 1953-1991;
professor mathematics, University of California-Berkeley, 1958-1991;
professor emeritus, University of California-Berkeley, since 1991;
department chairman, University of California-Berkeley, 1966-1968, 83-85. Visiting professor Dartmouth College, 1960-1961. Fulbright research scholar, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1954-1955, Technion, Haifa, Israel, spring 1979.
Guggenheim fellow, member Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, 1961-1962. Vis.fellow All Souls College, Oxford (England) University, 1968-1969. Visiting scholar U. Colorado, 1975, U. de Paris VII, 1987.
Distinguished visiting professor Mills College, 1990-1995.
(Additional Contributor Is Michael J. Walsh.)
Member of the United States Commision on Mathematics Instruction, 1978-1983, 88-, chairman, 1981-1982. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (county delegate for mathematics section). Member National Council Teachers Mathematics Association Symbolic Logic (president 1962-1964), American Mathematics Society (county 1962-1964), Mathematics Association American (Chauvenet prize 1964, Yueh-Gin Gung and Doctor Charles Y. Hu award 1990), Canada Mathematics Society, Association for Women in Mathematics, National Association Mathematics American Civil Liberties Union (board directors Berkeley chapter 1964-1966), Phi Beta Kappa (visiting lecturer 1993-1994), Sigma Xi.
Married Ginette Potvin, September 8, 1950. Children: Paul Jacques, Julian David.