# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-h-c-whitehead
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:43:08.577Z

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name: "J. H. C. Whitehead"
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description: "John Henry Constantine Whitehead, known as \"Henry\", was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai, in British India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960."
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birthDate: "1904-11-11"
deathDate: "1960-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump