Past Member

Leon A. Henkin

Affiliation

Mathematics

From the American Mathematical Society, December 31, 2007

[Leon A.] Henkin, professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, had labored much of his career to boost the number of women and underrepresented minorities in the upper levels of mathematics. Henkin spearheaded and chaired the Special Scholarships Committee at UC Berkeley, co-founded the Summer Mathematics Program on campus, played a central role in developing the Bay Area Mathematics Project, [and] co-led a 1989 study of math literacy in the U.S. commissioned by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

AMS News, December 31, 2007

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Mathematics

Degrees

Princeton University
Ph.D.
1947

Honors

Fulbright Research Scholar 1954-55
Guggenheim Fellow 1961-62
Visiting Fellow All Souls Coll Oxford 1968-69
1979
Fulbright Travel Grant
1964
Chauvenet Prize (MAA)

Appointments

US Comm for Hist & Philos of Sci, 1962-65
US Comm on Instr, 1978-
MAA CUPM
MAM Comm on Educ'l Media