Charles Dwight Lahr

Charles Dwight Lahr
Born
Charles Dwight Lahr

(1944-02-06)February 6, 1944
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
DiedDecember 26, 2016(2016-12-26) (aged 72)
Lyme, New Hampshire, United States
Alma materTemple University
Syracuse University
Known forFirst tenured African-American professor of mathematics at an Ivy League college
Scientific career
FieldsFunctional analysis, Harmonic Analysis on Groups and Semigroups, Banach Algebras, Educational Computing
InstitutionsDartmouth College
Doctoral advisorLawrence James Lardy

Charles Dwight Lahr (February 6, 1944 – December 26, 2016) was an American mathematician, the first tenured African-American professor of mathematics at an Ivy League university, and a university administrator.