A biographical sketch of robert carroll

Abstract

Robert W. Carroll was born on May 10, 1930 in Chicago. He received his undergraduate degree in applied mathematics at University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1952. He was an Aeronautical Research Scientist (GS9) at Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, which was part of NACA (now NASA) between 1952–54. Then he joined the Army as a linguist in Russian, Polish, German and French for the US Army Security Agency for three years, stationed in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He returned to the States in 1957 and received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics at University of Maryland (College Park) in 1959 and became an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Nancy, France. He was an Assistant Professor (1960–63) and Associate Professor (1963–64) at Rutgers University. Afterwards, he became an Associate Professor (1964–67) at the University of Illinois (Urbana). He was promoted to the full Professor (1967) and held that position for thirty years until his retirement there.