Person: Dye, Henry Abel

Henry Dye was an American mathematician who worked in operator algebras and ergodic theory.

After the award of his doctorate, Dye was appointed as a Bateman Fellow at the California Institute of Technology.
Dye served the university in many ways, the most important being his tenure of the Chair of the Mathematics Department from 1975 to 1978.
Dye's first paper was The Radon-Nikodym theorem for finite rings of operators which was published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in 1952.
The results which Dye proved in this paper led to marked progress in the theory of von Neumann algebras.
In 1953 Dye published The unitary structure in finite rings of operators.
In the paper Dye promised a second paper giving a detailed discussion of certain parts of his theory, and indeed this second instalment appeared in the same journal in 1963.
In 1981 Henry and Eugenie Dye visited the University of Warwick in England when Dye was a Senior Visiting Fellow of the U.K. Science research Council.
Henry's research students learned a lot from him about mathematical culture.
Dye's health deteriorated after he passed fifty years of age and for quite a few years he continued to work hard for UCLA despite being in poor health.

Born 14 February 1926, Dunkirk, New York, USA. Died 26 November 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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