Irving Kaplansky
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Groundbreaking in January, 1984, at the site of the future MSRI building.
From left:
Isadore Singer,
Shiing-Shen Chern,
Calvin Moore,
Alvin Thaler (Principal NSF Program Officer for MSRI),
Irving Kaplansky,
and
Ira Michael Heyman (UC Berkeley Chancellor).