Griffith C. Evans

Griffith Conrad Evans was a mathematician, born in 1887, who worked for much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley, and is largely credited with raising its mathematics department to a top-tier research department by recruiting many notable mathematicians in the 1930s and 1940s. He earned his PhD at Harvard in 1910 under Maxime Bocher with a dissertation on Volterra integral equation, then spent two years at the University of Rome under Vito Volterra. He was assistant professor at Rice University from 1912 and moved to Berkeley in 1934. His early research dealt with functional analysis, potential theory, integral equations and mathematical economics.