Henry P. McKean, Jr.[1] (1930 in Wenham, Massachusetts – April 20, 2024) was an American mathematician at the Courant Institute in New York University.
He obtained his PhD in 1955 from Princeton University under William Feller.
In 2007 he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for his life's work.
In 1978 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki (Algebraic curves of infinite genus arising in the theory of nonlinear waves).
[2] His doctoral students include Michael Arbib, Luigi Chierchia, Donald A. Dawson, Harry Dym, Daniel Stroock, Eugene Trubowitz, Victor Moll and Pierre van Moerbeke and Uri Keich.