# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-wedderburn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:55:09.101Z

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name: "Joseph Wedderburn"
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description: "Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. He also worked on group theory and matrix algebra."
tagline: "British mathematician (1882–1948)"
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birthDate: "1882-02-02"
deathDate: "1948-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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