| John Coleman Moore | |
| Birth Date: | 27 May 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Staten Island, New York, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Field: | Mathematics |
| Alma Mater: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BA) Brown University (PhD) |
| Doctoral Advisor: | George W. Whitehead |
| Doctoral Students: | Paul Baum William Browder Robin Hartshorne Eric Lander J. Peter May Haynes Miller Joseph Neisendorfer Michael Rosen James Stasheff Richard Swan Robert Thomason |
| Work Institution: | Princeton University University of Rochester |
| Known For: | Borel–Moore homology Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence Milnor–Moore theorem |
John Coleman Moore (May 27, 1923 – January 1, 2016) was an American mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him.[1]
Moore was born in 1923 in Staten Island, New York.[2] He received his B.A. in 1948 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in 1952 from Brown University under the supervision of George W. Whitehead.
Moore began his career at Princeton University as an instructor, and was eventually promoted to full professor in 1961. He retired from Princeton in 1989, after which he took a half-time position at the University of Rochester.[3]
His most-cited paper is on Hopf algebras, co-authored with John Milnor.[4] As a faculty member at Princeton University, he advised 24 students and is the academic ancestor of over 1000 mathematicians. He was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1958[5] in Edinburgh and in 1970 in Nice.
In 1983, a conference on K-theory was held at Princeton in honor of Moore's 60th birthday.[6] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7] He died in 2016 at the age of 92.[8]
. William Browder (mathematician) . Algebraic Topology and Algebraic K-Theory: Proceedings of a Conference, October 24-28, 1983 at Princeton University, Dedicated to John C. Moore on His 60th Birthday . . 1987 . 0-691-08426-2. .