William Craig

William Craig (November 13, 1918 – January 13, 2016) was an American academic, logician, and philosopher. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests included mathematical logic and the philosophy of science. He is best known for the Craig interpolation theorem and Craig's theorem. Born in Nuremberg, German Empire, Craig graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1951. He married Julia Rebecca Dwight Wilson and had four children. In 1959, he moved to UC Berkeley, where he remained until his death in Berkeley, California, at the age of 97.