Jack Morava

Jack Johnson Morava ( born June 8, 1944) is an American mathematician who is engaged in algebraic topology.

Morava received his doctorate in 1968 at Rice University ( where he studied from 1962 physics and two years later to mathematics changed ) in S. Eldon Dyer ( Algebraic Topology of Fredholm maps) and Michael Atiyah ( at the same time he was 1967/1968 at the Institute for Advanced Study and 1969 Oxford at Atiyah ). He was a professor at Columbia University, the State University of New York, and since 1980 has been professor at the Johns Hopkins University.

He developed in the 1970s, mainly in otherwise unpublished preprints, the Morava K-theory, cohomology theories with applications to stable homotopy theory .. He was also involved Kobordismentheorie and topological theories of gravitation.

He is married since 1970 with the linguist Ellen Contini - Morava, with whom he has two children. With it, he was in 1970 a year in Moscow, where he was on the Steklov Institute and met, among others, Israel Gelfand, Yuri Manin, Sergei Petrovich Novikov.