Biography
Frank Harary was born in New York City, the oldest child to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria and Morocco. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Brooklyn College in 1941 and 1945 respectively and his Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1948. During 1948-1986 he was with the University of Michigan. From 1987 he was Professor (and Distinguished Professor Emeritus) in the Computer Science Department at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. He was one of the founders of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory and the Journal of Graph Theory. He died at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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