Richard Duffin

| death_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. | nationality = American | fields = Physics | workplaces = Carnegie Mellon University
Purdue University | alma_mater = University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | doctoral_advisor = Harold Mott-Smith
David Bourgin | doctoral_students = Raoul Bott
Hans Weinberger | known_for = Work on electrical network theory
DKP algebra
Duffin–Schaeffer conjecture
Bott–Duffin synthesis | awards = John von Neumann Theory Prize (1982) }}

Richard James Duffin (1909 – October 29, 1996) was an American physicist, known for his contributions to electrical transmission theory and to the development of geometric programming and other areas within operations research. Provided by Wikipedia