Gerard Washnitzer

Gerard Washnitzer (* 1926 in New York City ) is an American mathematician.

Washnitzer studied at Princeton University, among others, by Emil Artin and in 1950 at Salomon Bochner doctorate (A Dirichlet Principle for analytic functions of several complex variables). In 1952 he was Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was then an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University and later professor of mathematics at Princeton. 1960/61 and 1967 /68 at the Institute for Advanced Study.

By Paul Monsky he led a 1968 Monsky - Washnitzer cohomology, a p-adic cohomology theory for non-singular algebraic varieties.

His PhD is one of William Fulton.