Background
Dedecker, Paul Jean was born on June 15, 1921 in Ixelles, Brabant, Belgium. Son of Jean Jospeh and Germaine Marie-Eugénie (Lengrand) Dedecker.
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Paul Jean Dedecker
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Education
Licensed science mathematics, U. Brussels, 1943; Doctor of Science, U. Brussels, 1948; Agrégé de l'Enseignement Supérieur, U. Liège, Belgium, 1958.
Career
Assistant, Royal Métérol. Institute Belgium, Brussels, 1946-1953;
chef de travaux, U. Liège, Belgium, 1953-1963;
professor, U. Lille, France, 1963-1971;
professor, U. Louvain, Belgium, 1963-1979;
professor, U. Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuala, 1980-1981;
professor, Pedagogical Institute Caracas, Venezuala, 1981-1982;
honorary professor, U. Center Venezuela, Caracas, since 1965. Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, fall 1957, winter-spring 1984.
Fellow Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 1982-1983. Expert United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Santiago, Chile, 1959. Lecturer University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, fall.
1956, U. Rome, 1955; visiting professor Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1966, Federal U. Rio de Janeiro, 1979. Founder Belgian Center for Algebra and Topology, 1955. Research visiting scientist Mathematisches Forschungs Institut da Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, 1964, Steklov Institute Mathematics Leningrad and Moscow, 1965, Aryah Mehr U. Tehran, Iran, 1975.
Lecturer numerous universities.
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Editor underground press in Nazi occupied Belgium, 1943-1944. Sergeant Belgian Air Force, 1945. Member French Mathematics Society, American Mathematics Society.
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Children:Marianne, Danielle, Martine, Guy, Roy-Mara.
