Researching Robert Macpherson
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The name Robert means "bright fame" and is of English origin.
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Robert MacPherson (mathematician)
Robert Duncan MacPherson (born May 25, 1944) is an American mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University. He is best known for the invention of intersection homology with Mark Goresky, whose thesis he directed at Brown University. MacPherson previously taught at Brown University, the University of Paris, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1983 he gave a plenary address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.
Educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University, MacPherson received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1970. His thesis, written under the direction of Raoul Bott, was entitled Singularities of Maps and Characteristic Classes. Among his many Ph.D students are Kari Vilonen and Mark Goresky.
In 1992 MacPherson was awarded the NAS Award in Mathematics from the National Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he and Goresky were awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research by the American Mathematical Society. In 2009 he received the Heinz Hopf Prize from ETH Zurich. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Source: Robert MacPherson (mathematician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRobert George Macpherson
Robert George Macpherson (January 28, 1866 – November 27, 1926) was a Canadian Liberal pharmacist and politician.
Born in Erin, Wellington county, Canada West, Robert George Macpherson's grandfather, Hugh Macpherson, was a native of Islay an island off the west coast of Scotland, who emigrated to Canada in 1858 with Robert George's father, Archibald. Macpherson's mother was Jeannette Hall, anative of Wellington county. Macpherson attended Arthur public school and complemented his education at Gait Collegiate Institute.
Early in life he became connected with the drug business. Gaining a comprehensive knowledge of that trade, he settled in New Westminster, British Columbia and worked there from 1888 to 1895. He was president of the British Columbia Pharmaceutical Association.
He was first elected in a 1903 by-election in the Burrard riding, and was re-elected in 1904 in Vancouver City, which he represented until 1908. In 1925 he attempted a return to the House, running in Vancouver South, but was defeated by the incumbent Leon Johnson Ladner. In 1909 he has appointed postmaster of Vancouver.
He was honorary president of the Vancouver Lacrosse Club, one of the founders of the Vancouver Canadian Club, and was contributor to Canadian magazines.
In 1890, Macpherson married Susan Van Aken, who was born in Coldwater, Michigan. They had three children, Brita, Bessie and Archie, all of whom were born in British Columbia. They were members of St. John's Presbyterian Church.
Source: Robert George Macpherson, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRobert Macpherson (Canadian politician)
Robert Macpherson (December 11, 1853 – 1929) was a Scottish-born carpenter, builder and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1894 to 1900.
He was born in Inverkip, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the son of Ritchie Macpherson, and was educated there. Macpherson came to Manitoba in 1882 and then moved to Vancouver in 1888. In 1894, he married Jane Elizabeth Sinclair (1863–1955).
Macpherson was nominated by the Nationalist Party, known as British Columbia's "first real labor party". He was elected in 1894 and 1898, to represent Vancouver City.
He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1900.
Macpherson died in 1929 and is interred in Burnaby, British Columbia.
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