| Michael Boardman | |
| Birth Name: | John Michael Boardman |
| Birth Date: | 1938 2, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Manchester |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis Title: | On stable homotopy theory and some applications |
| Thesis Url: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596743 |
| Thesis Year: | 1965 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | C. T. C. Wall |
| Known For: | algebraic topology and Differential geometry and topology |
| Field: | Mathematics |
| Work Institutions: | Johns Hopkins University |
John Michael Boardman (13 February 193818 March 2021) was a mathematician whose speciality was algebraic and differential topology. He was affiliated with the University of Cambridge, England and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Boardman was most widely known for his construction of the first rigorously correct model of the homotopy category of spectra.
He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1964. His thesis advisor was C. T. C. Wall. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[1] He died on 18 March 2021.[2]