Kwangil Koh
Kwangil Koh was awarded a Ph.D. from UNC at Chapel Hill in 1964. started at State in 1964. His research is in ring theory, number theory, group theory and topological algebra. During his career Koh wrote one book, more than 70 research papers and supervised 11 Ph.D. theses. He was one of the coaches for the Putnam Examination for many years. In November 2002 a Mid-Atlantic Algebra Conference was held in honor of the retirement of Kwangil Koh and Jiang Luh. Koh went on phased retirement in 2001Koh was the first algebraist to be hired by the department and over the years has been a big factor in bringing many other algebraists to the department. Below is a rare picture of Koh at an algebra conference at the University of Arkansas while he was still a graduate student. Note that one of the mathematicians in the picture is James Scroggs, the father of our own Jeff Scroggs.
1962–University of Oklahoma, Research Participation Group
Left to Right: Row One: Kwangil Koh, Edgar Karet, Helen Sullivan, Miriam Ater, Shankar Dwividi, Peter Marcer, Marion Beiter. Row Two: John McNamee, James Scroggs, Raymond Roth, Richard Andree, Lester Laird, John Long, William Frawley, Lowry McKee