W. Forrest Stinespring
Template:Short description William Forrest "Woody" Stinespring (16 March 1929, Charlottesville, Virginia – 15 May 2012) was an American mathematician, specializing in operator theory. He is known for the Stinespring factorization theorem.
While studying in Harvard University, Stinespring twice became a Putnam fellow, in 1947 and 1949.[1] After graduating from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree, Stinespring received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1957.[2] His thesis Integration for gages and duality theorems was written under the supervision of Irving Segal.[3][4] Stinespring was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1957 to 1959.[5] After teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MIT, and the University of Chicago, he became in 1966 a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, retiring there as professor emeritus in 1999.[2] He wrote 7 papers with David Shale.
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W. Forrest Stinespring's father was William Franklin Stinespring (b. 1901), who was a professor at Duke University Divinity School from 1936 to 1971.
Selected publications
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