Math Department Chairs
UW Math Department Chairs in Chronological Order
| Dates | Name | Other Information | Chair Dates |
| 1849 - 1885 | John W. Sterling | chair | 1849-1884
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| 1881 - 1906 | Charles A. Van Velzer | chair | 1884-1894
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| 1886 - 1934 | Charles S. Slichter | chair | 1894-1921
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| 1906 - 1929 | Edward B. Van Vleck | chair | 1921-1928
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| 1918 - 1932 | Warren Weaver | chair | 1928-1931
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| 1919 - 1966 | Mark H. Ingraham | chair | 1934-1942
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| 1927 - 1964 | Rudolph E. Langer | chair | 1942-1952
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| 1933 - 1961 | Cyrus C. MacDuffee | chair | 1952-1956
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| 1950 - 1957 | Albert C. Schaeffer | chair | 1956-1957
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| 1935 - 1979 | Stephen C. Kleene | chair | 1957-1958 |
| 1946 - 1978 | R H Bing | chair | 1958-1960
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| 1935 - 1979 | Stephen C. Kleene | chair | 1960-1962 |
| 1946 - 1976 | Laurence C. Young | chair | 1962-1964
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| 1950 - 1990 | Robert Creighton Buck | chair | 1964-1966
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| 1959 - 1993 | Hans Schneider | chair | 1966-1968
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| 1961 - 1991 | John Nohel | chair | 1968-1970
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| 1956 - 1980 | Wolfgang Wasow | chair | 1970-1972
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| 1962 - 1996 | Michael Bleicher | chair | 1972-1974
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| 1965 - 1996 | Peter Ney | chair | 1974-1977
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| 1956 - 1993 | Joshua Chover | chair | 1977-1979
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| 1960 - 1996 | Fred Brauer | chair | 1979-1982
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| 1957 - 2000 | Marshall Osborn | chair | 1982-1985
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| 1967 - present | Thomas Kurtz | chair | 1985-1988
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| 1963 - 1996 | Simon Hellerstein | chair | 1988-1991
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| 1970 - present | Alexander Nagel | chair | 1991-1993
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| 1965 - present | Richard Brualdi | chair | 1993-1999
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| 1989 - 2006 | Alejandro Adem | chair | 1999-2002
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| 1977 - present | David Griffeath | chair | 2002-2005
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| 1997 - present | Leslie Smith | chair | 2005-present
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