1938
Dr. Boardman is born in Manchester, England to William Edgar Boardman and Carrie Boardman.
1956
Dr. Boardman joins the Royal Air Force.
1961
Dr. Boardman receives a Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College Cambridge of the University of Cambridge.
1964
Dr. Boardman becomes a Fellow of the Science Research Council.
1965
Dr. Boardman receives a Doctor of Philosophy from Trinity College Cambridge of the University of Cambridge.
1966
Dr. Boardman serves as a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago.
1967
Dr. Boardman serves as an assistant lecturer at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.
1967
Dr. Boardman co-authors “Singularities of Differentiable Maps.”
1969
Dr. Boardman immigrates to the United States and becomes an associate professor at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
1970
Dr. Boardman receives a grant from the National Science Foundation.
1972
Dr. Boardman is promoted to full professor at The Johns Hopkins University.
1973
Dr. Boardman becomes a naturalized United States citizen.
1973
Dr. Boardman authors “Homotopy Invariant Algebraic Structures on Topological Spaces.”
1993
Dr. Boardman co-authors “Modular Representations on the Homology of Powers of Real Projective Space.”
1995
Dr. Boardman authors “Unstable Operations on Generalized Cohomology.”
1995
Dr. Boardman authors “Conditionally Convergent Spectral Sequences.”
2007
Dr. Boardman authors “K(n)-torsion Free H-spaces and P(n)-Cohomology.”
2010
Dr. Boardman is named Professor Emeritus at The Johns Hopkins University.
2017
Dr. Boardman is honored with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who.