Dana Scott

Dana Stewart Scott is an American mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, and topologist born in Berkeley in 1932. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and was educated at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral advisor was Alonzo Church, and he has supervised doctoral students including Jack Copeland, Kenneth Kunen, Angus Macintyre, and Fred S. Roberts.

Scott has worked at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University, and Johannes Kepler University Linz. His research fields include lattice theory, mathematical logic, model theory, and topology. Notable works include *Lectures on a mathematical theory of computation*, *Notes on the formalization of logic*, *Continuous lattices*, and *The lattice of flow diagrams*.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea, the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Scott has received the Turing Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harold Pender Award, and Leroy P. Steele Prize. He speaks English and is related to Otto Schreier.