Robert Zimmer children: Meet Robert Zimmer’s three sons

American mathematician and academic administrator Robert Zimmer lived from November 5, 1947, to May 23, 2023. He was the 13th president of the University of Chicago from 2006 to 2021. He also served as the chair of the boards of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Marine Biological Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory. Then, until July 2022, he was the University of Chicago’s chancellor. Mathematically, Zimmer was an expert in differential geometry, ergodic theory, and Lie groups.

In 1964, Zimmer earned his high school diploma from Stuyvesant High School in New York. He enrolled at Brandeis University as an undergraduate, receiving his B.A., summa cum laude, in 1968. Under the guidance of George Mackey, he pursued graduate-level mathematics studies at Harvard University, where he earned his master’s in 1971 and his Ph.D. in 1975.

Robert Zimmer children: Meet Robert Zimmer’s three sons

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies, and Zimmer’s three sons—Alex, Benjamin, and David—by his former partner Terese Schwartzman are his only survivors. In his email, Rubenstein stated that the University would provide details “in the near future” regarding a memorial service for Zimmer.