Henry Gordon Rice

Henry Gordon Rice was an American logician and mathematician who lived from 1920 to 2003. He is best known as the author of Rice's theorem, a result that he proved in his doctoral dissertation of 1951 at Syracuse University under the supervision of Paul C. Rosenbloom. Rice later served as a professor of mathematics at the University of New Hampshire, and after 1960 he was employed by Computer Sciences Corporation in El Segundo. He died on 14 April 2003 in Davis, California. The entry rests on the lead of his English Wikipedia article, which gives his dates, his dissertation, his advisor, his two later positions and his place of death.