John Neff

1887–1938 (age 51)

Mathematics professor

Biography

John Neff spent his career as a mathematics professor at the University of Virginia, where his enthusiasm for the subject and his encouragement of each student helped sustain a department devoted to clarity, rigor, and service.

He is remembered for the warmth he showed to successive generations of scholars and his unwavering commitment to the university community, and his final rest is in the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium.

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