James Dugundji (August 30, 1919 – January 8, 1985) was an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California.
in 1940, and went on to graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying there under the supervision of Witold Hurewicz.
After two years of study at UNC, Dugundji joined the United States Air Force for the duration of World War II, and then completed his doctorate from 1946 to 1948 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to which his advisor had moved.
[10] With co-authors I. Ugi, R. Kopp and D. Marquarding, he wrote a book on this subject as well, Perspectives in Theoretical Stereochemistry (Springer, 1984).
[2] In 2005, an international conference on fixed point theorems was held in Dugundji's memory in Będlewo, Poland.