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Hurewicz, Witold (1904–1956)| Polish-born US topologist. Emigrating to the USA he taught at the University of North Carolina 1937–45 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1945–56. He discovered higher homotopy groups and exact sequences and did major work on fibre spaces. Charming and absent-minded, he died after falling off a pyramid in Uxmal, Mexico. |
| He was born in Łódź, Poland. |
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