Richard Alfred Tapia
Nascimento	25 de março de 1939 (85 anos) Los Angeles
Nacionalidade	estadunidense
Cidadania	Estados Unidos
Alma mater	Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles
Ocupação	matemático, professor universitário
Distinções	PAESMEM (1996), Medalha Nacional de Ciências (2010)
Empregador(a)	Universidade Rice
Orientador(a)(es/s)	Magnus Hestenes e Charles Tompkins
Orientado(a)(s)	Jorge Nocedal
Instituições	Universidade Rice
Campo(s)	matemática
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Richard Alfred Tapia (Los Angeles, 25 de março de 1939) é um matemático estadunidense.

É representante das minorias sub-representadas em ciência.^[1] Em reconhecimento a sua ampla contribuição, em 2005 Tapia foi nomeado University Professor da Universidade Rice em Houston, Texas, o mais elevado título acadêmico universitário dos Estados Unidos. Esta honraria foi outorgada para somente seis professores de Rice durante os noventa e nove anos de sua história.^[2] Em 28 de setembro de 2011 o president Barack Obama anunciou que Tapia estava entre os doze cientistas a serem condecorados com a Medalha Nacional de Ciências, o mais significativo prêmio que os Estados Unidos oferece a seus pesquisadores.^[3]

• Ph.D., Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles, 1967 (Matemática)
  • Tese: "A Generalization of Newton's Method with an Application to the Euler-Lagrange Equation"^[4]
  • Orientadores: Magnus Hestenes, Charles Tompkins^[5]
• M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1966 (Matemática)
• B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1961 (Matemática)

• 2005–present: University Professor, Rice University
• 2005–present: Maxfield and Oshman Professor of Engineering, Rice University
• 2000–present: Adjunct Professor, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Houston
• 1999–present: Director, Center for Excellence and Equity in Education, Rice University
• 1991 - 2005: Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
• 1989–present: Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Rice University
• 1989 - 2000:Director of Education and Outreach Programs, Center for Research on Parallel Computation, Rice University
• 1986 - 1988: Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
• 1978 - 1983: Adjunct Professor, T.I.R.R., (then called the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research) Baylor College of Medicine
• 1978 - 1983: Chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rice University
• 1976–present: Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Rice University
• 1972 - 1976: Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Rice University
• 1970 - 1972: Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Rice University
• 1968 - 1970: Assistant Professor, Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison

• Medalha Nacional de Ciências, 2011.
• Hispanic Heritage Award in Math and Science, September 2009.^[6]
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession, Portland OR, July 2004.^[7][8]
• Community Service Award, University of California Los Angeles Alumni Association, Los Angeles, California, May 2004.
• Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology Magazine, "One of the 50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business" April 2004.
• Distinguished Public Service Award, American Mathematical Society, Phoenix, Arizona, January 2004.
• Texas Science Hall of Fame Inductee, Institute of Texan Cultures, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, January 2002.
• Reginald H. Jones Distinguished Service Award, NACME, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, October 2001.
• Distinguished Scientist Award, Society for the Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2000.
• 1999 Giants in Science Award, Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, Washington, DC, February 1999.
• 1997 Lifetime Mentor Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1998.
• Recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, September 1996.
• Appointed to the National Science Board by President Clinton, August 1996.
• National Academy of Engineering, February 1992.
• Was chosen to have a "Celebration of Diversity in Computing" conference ^[9] named after him (usually held biannually ^[10]). Actually, maybe that should be 1.5 conferences, counting [half of] the Blackwell-Tapia_prize#Blackwell-Tapia_Conference.

• Richard Alfred Tapia (em inglês) no Mathematics Genealogy Project
• "Tapia Video Biography", The Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University.
• Barron, Rachel (outono de 1999). «Hitting the Highway with Mathematician Dr. Richard Tapia». Sacnas News. 3 (3) 
• Smallwood, Scott (28 de março de 2003). «A Race That's About More Than Speed: Richard Tapia, dragster mathematician, seeks to fuel minority scientists and engineers». The Chronicle of Higher Education. 49 (29) 
• "Tapia promoted to University Professor", Rice University News Release.

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