This article is about the German-American mathematician. For the American philosopher, see Alexander Rosenberg. For the Russian architect, see Aleksandr Rosenberg.
Rosenberg was born on December 5, 1926, in Berlin. His family escaped Nazi Germany in 1939, moving to Switzerland, to England, and then to Ontario, Canada. Rosenberg graduated in 1948 from the University of Toronto, with a B.A. in mathematics, and earned a master's degree there the following year.[1][3] He completed his PhD in 1951 at the University of Chicago, with a doctoral thesis on ring theory supervised by Irving Kaplansky.[4]
He moved to Cornell University in 1961, and served as department chair there from 1966 to 1969 where his PhD students included Vera Pless, Lindsay Childs and David Dobbs. In 1986 he moved again, to become chair of the mathematics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was named emeritus at Cornell in 1988, and retired from UCSB in 1994.[1][3]
Rosenberg married Beatrice F. Gershenson in 1952, with whom he had two sons. They divorced in 1984, and he married his second wife Brunhilde in Germany in 1985. He died on October 27, 2007, in Schwerte, Germany.[1]
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^ abcdAlex F.T.W. Rosenberg, December 5, 1926 – October 27, 2007, Cornell University, Office of the Dean of the University Faculty, 2007, hdl:1813/19284.