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Curriculum vitae
( Extracted from : "Beno Eckmann Selecta" Springer-Verlag, 1987.)

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1. Born March 31, 1917 in Bern, Switzerland
   Schools in Bern, Gymnasium (Latin-Greek),diploma (Maturität) 1935
   Student, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH) 1935-39,
   diploma (Master's degree) in Mathematics 1939
   Assistant, ETH 1939-42
   Dr. sc. math. (Ph. D.), ETH 1941, with Kern prize and silver medal
2. Lecturer, then Associate Professor, Université de Lausanne 1942-48
   Privatdozent, ETH 1942
   Professor of Mathematics, ETH 1948
   Professor Emeritus 1984
3. Member, Institute for advanced Study Princeton: January- September 1947
   summer 1951, spring 1952
   Visiting Professor: University of Michigan summer 1950, University of Illinois
   winter 1952, University of Carolina Berkeley summer 1955, Scuola Normale Superiore
   Pisa spring 1958, Università di Roma winter 1966, University of Washington summer 1970
   and others.
4. Secretary, International Mathematical Union 1956-61
   President, Swiss Mathematical Society 1961-62
   Head, Mathematics Research Institute ETH 1964-84
   Member of Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, 1973-84
5. Honorary doctor's degrees: Université de Fribourg 1964, Ecole Polytechnique
   Fédérale Lausanne 1969, Israel Institute of Technology 1983
   Prix Mondial Nessim Habif, Université de Genève 1967

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