William G. Bade

After his father's death, Bade moved with his mother and sister from Berkeley to San Diego, where he graduated from high school in 1942.

[1][2] Bade's research started out in operator theory, but he soon moved into Banach algebras where he made fundamental contributions to the field of automatic continuity.

[1][2] On 2 July 1952 he married Eleanor "Elly" Jane Barry (1927–2024) and they moved to Connecticut where he worked at Yale University until 1955.

Bade and Robert Bartle were research assistants from 1952 to 1954 working on Part I of Linear Operators by Nelson Dunford and Jacob T. Schwartz.

[2][3] He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012, the year in which he died.