Lajos Pukánszky
Lajos Pukánszky (1928-1996) was a Hungarian and American mathematician noted for his work in
representation theory of
solvable Lie group s. He was born in
Budapest on November 24, 1928, defended his thesis in 1955 at the
University of Szeged under
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy , but left Hungary in 1956. After taking several posts in the United States (at the Research Institute of Advanced Studies in Baltimore, the
University of Maryland, College Park ,
Stanford University ,
UCLA ), in 1965 he became a professor at the
University of Pennsylvania , where he stayed until his retirement. He gave an
invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice in 1970. In 1988 a conference entitled "The Orbit Method in Representation Theory" was held at the
University of Copenhagen in honor of his sixtieth birthday. He died on February 15, 1996, in
Philadelphia .
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