Verner Emil Hoggatt Jr.

Verner Emil Hoggatt Jr. was an American mathematician, known mostly for his work in Fibonacci numbers and number theory.
Hoggatt received a Ph.D. from Oregon State University in 1955 for his dissertation on the inverse Weierstrass ℘ function.
Besides his contributions in Fibonacci numbers and number theory it is as the co-founder of the Fibonacci Association and publisher of the associated journal Fibonacci Quarterly for which he is best remembered.
Howard Eves commented, "During his long and outstanding tenure at San [Jose State University], Vern directed an enormous number of master's theses, and put out an amazing number of attractive papers... He became the authority on Fibonacci and related numbers."