William Buhmann Johnson (born December 5, 1944) is an American mathematician, one of the namesakes of the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma. He is Distinguished Professor and A.G. & M.E. Owen Chair of Mathematics at Texas A&M University. His research specialties include the theory of Banach spaces, nonlinear functional analysis, and probability theory.Faculty directory listing, Texas A&M Mathematics, retrieved 2013-01-26. He was born in Palo Alto, California and raised from an early age in Dallas, Texas.
Johnson graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1966,Faculty web page, retrieved 2013-01-26. and earned a doctorate from Iowa State University in 1969 under the supervision of James A. Dyer. After faculty positions at the University of Houston, and Ohio State University, he joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1984.
In 2007, Johnson was awarded the Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences.Stefan Banach Medal , Polish Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2013-01-26.2007 Personal News, Texas A&M Mathematics, retrieved 2013-01-26. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2013-01-26. In 2018 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. His doctoral students include Edward Odell.
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