Jack Morava

Jack Morava
Jack Morava and his wife Ellen Contini-Morava near the Burgess Shale, 1971
Born(1944-08-06)August 6, 1944
Texas, United States
DiedAugust 1, 2025(2025-08-01) (aged 80)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Alma materRice University
Known forMorava K-theory
SpouseEllen Contini-Morava
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsAlgebraic topology
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Oxford
ThesisAlgebraic topology of Fredholm maps (1968)
Doctoral advisorEldon Dyer
Doctoral studentsSatyan Devadoss
Websitemathematics.jhu.edu/directory/jack-morava/

Jack Johnson Morava (August 6, 1944 – August 1, 2025) was an American mathematician at Johns Hopkins University. Morava specialized in homotopy theory and is credited for Morava K-theory, a class of cohomology theories.

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