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Guido Weiss | |
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.jpg) Guido Weissc. 2011 | |
| Born | (1928-12-29)29 December 1928 |
| Died | 25 December 2021(2021-12-25) (aged 92) |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (BS,MS,PhD) |
| Spouse | Barbara Weiss |
| Children | 2[1] |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | On certain classes of function spaces and on the interpolation of sublinear operators (1956) |
| Doctoral advisor | Antoni Zygmund |
Guido Leopold Weiss (29 December 1928–25 December 2021 inSt. Louis[1]) was an American mathematician, working in analysis, especially Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis.
Weiss was born inTrieste Italy into aJewish family. His parents,Edoardo and Vonda Weiss, were both psychiatrists. Weiss was forced out of school at the age of 9, upon the passage of Italy'sItalian Racial Laws, which forbade all Jewish children from attending public school. He attended a Jewish school inRome until the end of 1939 when his father was sponsored by members of theMenninger family to emigrate to America. The family settled inTopeka, Kansas.
Weiss studied at theUniversity of Chicago, where he received in 1951 his master's degree and in 1956 underAntoni Zygmund his PhD with thesisOn certain classes of function spaces and on the interpolation of sublinear operators.[2] AtDePaul University he became an instructor in 1955, an assistant professor in 1956, and in 1959 an associate professor. in 1960 he was a visiting professor inBuenos Aires and in the same year a postdoc at theInstitut Henri Poincaré in Paris. In 1961 Weiss became an associate professor and in 1963 a professor atWashington University in St. Louis, where from 1967 to 1970 he was also chair of the mathematics department. He was a visiting professor at several universities, including theUniversity of Geneva (1964–65), theUniversité Paris-Sud (1970–71), theScuola Normale Superiore inPisa (1980), inMadrid and inBeijing. In the academic year 1987–88 he was atMSRI as the organizer of a program in classical analysis.
In 1967 Weiss won theChauvenet Prize for his articleHarmonic Analysis. In 1994 he was given honorary doctorates inMilan andBarcelona.[3] In 2012 he became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[4]
