Henry Christian Wente (August 18, 1936 – January 20, 2020)[1] was an American mathematician, known for his 1986 discovery of the Wente torus, an immersed constant-mean-curvature surface whose existence disproved a conjecture of Heinz Hopf.
[2][3] Wente obtained both his bachelor's degree and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
[1] He completed his doctorate in 1966, under the supervision of Garrett Birkhoff.
[4] He was a distinguished professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Toledo, which he joined in 1971.
[1] In 1986 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berkeley, California.