[2] Born in Philadelphia, Dwight Lahr attended Central High School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Temple University in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in math.
in 1968 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Syracuse University in 1972, with a dissertation entitled "Approximate identities and multipliers for certain convolution measure algebras.
"[3] After working at Bell Labs, he joined the faculty of Dartmouth College as an assistant professor in 1975.
[4] He retired in 2014,[2] and in 2021 Dartmouth College inaugurated the C. Dwight Lahr Lecture series.
[4] His area of specialization was functional analysis, and he published 12 papers in the field.