Joseph Robert Shoenfield (1927, Detroit – November 15, 2000, Durham, North Carolina) was an American mathematical logician.
Shoenfield obtained his PhD in 1953 with Raymond Louis Wilder at the University of Michigan (Models of formal systems).
From 1952, he lectured at Duke University, where he remained until becoming emeritus in 1992.
He delivered the Gödel Lecture at the 1992 meeting of the ASL.
[3] Already in his student days, Schoenfield was a passionate and strong contract bridge player.