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He was born in Detroit, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1944. After obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1950, he went to MIT, where he has spent nearly all his career.
Singer is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the awards he has received are the Bôcher Memorial Prize (1969) and the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement ( 2000), both from the American Mathematical Society, the Eugene Wigner Medal (1988), the National Medal of Science (1983) and the Abel Prize (2004, shared with Michael Atiyah).
Singer, Isadore Singer, Isadore