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Kurt Gödel

Kurt GödelBorn: 28-Apr-1906
Birthplace: Brünn, Austria-Hungary
Died: 14-Jan-1978
Location of death: Princeton, NJ
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Princeton Cemetery

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Mathematician

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

Father: Rudolf Gödel (owned a textile factory)
Mother: Marianne Handschuh
Brother: Rudolf (b. 1902)
Wife: Adele Porkert (m. 20-Sep-1938)

    University: PhD, University of Vienna (1930)
    Teacher: Privatdozent, University of Vienna (1933)
    Scholar: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

    London Mathematical Society honorary member
    National Academy of Sciences
    Royal Society foreign member
    National Medal of Science 1974
    Nervous Breakdown 1934
    Nervous Breakdown 1935
    Naturalized US Citizen 1948
    Risk Factors: Depression

Author of books:
Consistency of the Axiom of Choice and of the Generalized Continuum-Hypothesis with the Axioms of Set Theory (1940, mathematics)


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