Felix E. Browder is a United States mathematician. He was born on July 31, 1927 in Moscow, Russia. He was a child prodigy who entered MIT in 1944 and graduated in 1946 with his first degree in mathematics. Browder was the recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Science. He also served as president of the American Mathematical Society from 1999 to 2000. Browder was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Brandeis University. After a year, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Yale where he was steadily promoted reaching the rank of Professor by the time he left in 1963 to take up the position of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago.