American mathematician and academic leader Robert Zimmer lived from November 5, 1947, to May 23, 2023. He was the 13th president of the University of Chicago from 2006 to 2021. He also served as chair of the boards of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Marine Biological Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory. He then served as University of Chicago’s chancellor until July 2022. Zimmer was a mathematician who focused on differential geometry, ergodic theory, and Lie groups.
In 1964, Zimmer completed his education at New York’s Stuyvesant High School. He enrolled as a freshman at Brandeis University and graduated in 1968 with a B.A., summa cum laude. Under the guidance of George Mackey, he pursued graduate-level mathematics studies at Harvard University, earning his master’s and doctoral degrees in that field in 1971 and 1975, respectively.
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