Reinhold Baer

Reinhold Baer
Born	(1902-07-22)22 July 1902 Berlin, Germany
Died	22 October 1979(1979-10-22) (aged 77) Zürich, Switzerland
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Göttingen
Known for	Baer group Baer ring Baer–Suzuki theorem Baer–Specker group Injective module Ext functor
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Goethe University Frankfurt
Doctoral advisor	Hellmuth Kneser
Doctoral students	Bernd Fischer Grace Bates

Reinhold Baer (22 July 1902 – 22 October 1979) was a German mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups.