John Tate (mathematician)

John Torrence Tate Jr. was an American mathematician distinguished for many fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry and related areas of algebraic geometry. He took his bachelor degree in mathematics at Harvard University in 1946 and entered the doctoral program at Princeton University, first in physics. He taught at Harvard for 36 years before joining the University of Texas in 1990. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2010, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958 and to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1969.