Charles Weibel

Charles Alexander Weibel is an American mathematician born in 1950 in Terre Haute, Indiana, who works on algebraic K-theory, algebraic geometry and homological algebra. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Michigan, took a master's degree at the University of Chicago and a doctorate there in 1977 under Richard Swan, and has been a professor at Rutgers University since 1989. He is best known for joining Vladimir Voevodsky and Markus Rost in the proof of the motivic Bloch-Kato conjecture, completed in 2009, and for writing The K-book and An introduction to homological algebra. He helped found the K-theory Foundation in 2010, edits the Annals of K-theory and became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2014.