Gordon Thomas Whyburn (January 7, 1904, Lewisville, Texas – September 8, 1969, Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American mathematician who worked on topology.
[1] Whyburn studied at the University of Texas, Austin, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1925.
From 1934, he was a professor at the University of Virginia, where he modernized the mathematics department and spent the rest of his career.
Whyburn was awarded the Chauvenet Prize in 1938 for his paper "On the Structure of Continua",[2] and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1951.
[3] His brother William Marvin Whyburn (1901–1972) was a mathematics professor at UCLA and became known for his work on ordinary differential equations.