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| | Math professor Irving Segal dies at 79; was on MIT faculty for 38 years - MIT News Office |
 | | Born in the Bronx on Sept. 13, 1918, Professor Segal was raised in Trenton, NJ, and received the BA from Princeton in 1937 and the PhD from Yale in 1940, both in mathematics. |
 | | Professor Segal, a member of the American Astronomical, Mathematical, and Physical Societies, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. |
 | | Professor Segal is survived by his wife, Dr. Martha (Fox) Segal of Lexington; their 6-year-old daughter, Miriam, of Lexington; three children from an earlier marriage, William of Bethesda, MD, Andrew of Espinola, NM, and Karen of New York City; and four grandchildren. |
| web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1998/segal.html (600 words) |
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