Gerard Washnitzer

Gerard Washnitzer (1926 in New York City – April 2, 2017[1]) was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry.

Washnitzer studied at Princeton University under Emil Artin and in 1950 received a Ph.D. (A Dirichlet Principle for analytic functions of several complex variables) under the supervision of Salomon Bochner.

[2] In 1952 he was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[3] After that, he was an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University and then a professor at Princeton University.

In 1968, together with Paul Monsky, he introduced the Monsky–Washnitzer cohomology,[4] which is a p-adic cohomology theory for non-singular algebraic varieties.