Robert Horton Cameron

Robert Horton Cameron (1908 to 1989) was an American mathematician who worked on analysis and probability theory and is known for the Cameron-Martin theorem. Born on 17 May 1908, he received his Ph.D. in 1932 from Cornell University under W. A. Hurwitz, held a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 to 1935, and was on the faculty at MIT from 1935 to 1945 and then at the University of Minnesota until his retirement. He had 35 Ph.D. students at Minnesota, among them Monroe D. Donsker and Elizabeth Cuthill, and published 72 papers. At MIT he worked with Norbert Wiener, and in the 1940s he and W. T. Martin extended Wiener early work on models of Brownian motion. He won the Chauvenet Prize in 1944.