Henry Christian Wente (August 18, 1936 – January 20, 2020) was an American mathematician, known for his 1997 discovery of the Wente torus, an immersed constant-mean-curvature surface whose existence disproved a conjecture of Heinz Hopf.The Wente torus, University of Toledo Mathematics Department, retrieved 2013-09-01.
Wente obtained both his bachelor's degree and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He completed his doctorate in 1966, under the supervision of Garrett Birkhoff. He was a distinguished professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Toledo, which he joined in 1971. In 1988 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berkeley, California. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2013-09-01.
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