12 Facts About Irving Segal

Irving Ezra Segal was an American mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics.

Irving Ezra Segal was born in the Bronx on September 13,1918, to Jewish parents.

Irving Segal was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, completed his undergraduate studies in just three years time, graduated with highest honors with a bachelor's degree in 1937, and was awarded the George B Covington Prize in Mathematics.

Irving Segal was then admitted to Yale, and in another three years time had completed his doctorate, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1940.

Irving Segal taught at Harvard University, then he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, working from 1941 to 1943 with Albert Einstein and John von Neumann.

Irving Segal joined the mathematics department at the University of Chicago in 1948 where he served until 1960.

Irving Segal won three Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1947,1951 and 1967, and received the Humboldt Award in 1981.

Irving Segal was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1966 in Moscow and in 1970 in Nice.

Irving Segal was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Irving Segal provided an alternative to the Big Bang theory of expansion of the universe.

Irving Segal claimed confirmation, but generally his chronometric cosmology has not found favor.

Irving Segal concedes at the outset that Segal's cosmology is "generally ignored by astrophysicists", and that the model was first proposed by Einstein in 1917 and is "supposedly discredited".