What is Harold Widom?
[[File:Harold Widom.jpg|right|200px]] '''Harold Widom''' (September 23, 1932 &ndash; January 20, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was best known for his works to [[operator theory]] and [[random matrix|random matrices]]. He was appointed to the Department of Mathematics at the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]] in 1968 and became [[professor emeritus]] in 1994. He was born in [[Newark, New Jersey]]. In 2006, Widom became a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]. Widom died on January 20, 2021 at the age of 88.<ref>[https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/01/widom-in-memoriam.html In Memoriam: Harold Widom (1932–2021)]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Widom, Harold}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:American mathematicians]] [[Category:Scientists from Newark, New Jersey]] {{US-bio-stub}}