Background
Plummer was born in Akron, Ohio on August 31, 1937. He grew up in Lima, Ohio where he attended Lima Central High School, graduating in 1955.
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University of Michigan.
Career
His field of work is in graph theory in which he has produced over a hundred papers and publications. He has also spoken at over a hundred and fifty guest lectures around the world. He then went to Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana on an honor scholarship, with a double major in mathematics and physics.
Next, he took a graduate fellowship in physics at the University of Michigan, but after one year of the program, switched to mathematics.
In 1966 he was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy, with a thesis supervised by Frank Harary.
After postdoctoral studies at Yale University from 1966 to 1968, Plummer took an assistant professorship in the recently formed Department of Computer Science at City College of New New York In 1970 he joined the Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University, and remained there until his retirement in 2008.
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