Education
He studied mathematics at the University of Chicago and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1936 at Brown University under Jacob Tamarkin.
He studied mathematics at the University of Chicago and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1936 at Brown University under Jacob Tamarkin.
The Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem bear his name. He moved in 1939 to Yale University, where he remained until his retirement in 1960. Nelson Dunford was coeditor of Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (1941–1945) and Mathematical Surveys and Monographs (1945–1949).