Jaap Murre

Jacob Pieter Murre, known as Jaap Murre, was a Dutch mathematician who specialized in algebraic geometry. He was born on 18 September 1929 in Baarland and died on 9 April 2023. After starting at Delft University of Technology in 1947 he moved to Leiden University, where he graduated in 1952, and he then did doctoral research under Andre Weil at the University of Chicago with support from the Marshall Plan. He obtained his doctorate in 1957 under Hendrik Kloosterman, was inspired by Alexander Grothendieck from 1958 and collaborated with him, and became a professor at Leiden University in 1961, teaching algebraic geometry until he retired in 1994. His first doctoral student was Frans Oort. He travelled widely, worked with David Mumford, C. S. Seshadri, Alberto Conte and Spencer Bloch, and published on algebraic cycles and the Chow group in the 1990s. He was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971.