NOTE: The following is a corrected version of a memorial published in the Feb. 9, 2011, issue of PAW.
Gerhard Hochschild, a retired professor of mathematics emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, died peacefully July 8, 2010. He was 95.
Hochschild was born in Germany and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1936 and 1938, respectively, from the University of Capetown in South Africa. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton in 1941. From 1941-1942, Hochschild was a part-time instructor and a research assistant at Princeton. In May 1942, he joined the Army and served until he returned to Princeton, where he was an instructor from 1945-1946.
From 1946 to 1948, he was a Peirce instructor at Harvard, after which he was at the University of Illinois from 1948 to 1958, where he rose from assistant to full professor. During that period he also was a visiting associate professor at Yale. From 1958 until he retired in 1985, Hochschild was a professor of mathematics at Berkeley.
In 1956-1957, Hochschild was a Guggenheim fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, and in 1979 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1981 he was awarded the Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society.
Hochschild is survived by his daughter, Ann, son Peter, and two grandchildren.
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