Dwight Albert Duffus is a Canadian-American

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, the Goodrich C. White Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at

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Faculty profile
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, retrieved 2010-09-10. and editor-in-chief of the journal ''

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''. Duffus did his undergraduate studies at the

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, graduating in 1974; he received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the

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under the supervision of Ivan Rival. In 1986 Duffus received Emory University's Emory Williams Teaching Award, its highest award for teaching excellence. He served as chair of the Mathematics & Computer Science Department at Emory for many years, beginning in 1991.Distinguished faculty
Emory University, 2002. Retrieved 2010-09-10.

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