 degree in 1954 and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1958, with a dissertation entitled "Homology of Loop Spaces," advised by John Coleman Moore.Since 1964 Browder has been a professor at Princeton University; he was chair of the mathematics department at Princeton from 1971 to 1973.He was editor of the journal "Annals of Mathematics" from 1969 to 1981, and president of the American Mathematical Society from 1989 to 1991.