JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE BÔCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE 
(44% of recipients)

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Listed below are recipients of the Bôcher Memorial Prize in Mathematics who were, or are, Jewish or of half-Jewish descent, as noted. 
The Bôcher Prize is considered to be one of the six most prestigious in the field of mathematics.1
  • Solomon Lefschetz (1924)
  • Norbert Wiener (1933)
  • John von Neumann (1938)
  • Jesse Douglas (1943)
  • Norman Levinson (1953)
  • Louis Nirenberg (1959)
  • Paul Cohen (1964)
  • I. M. Singer (1969)
  • Donald Ornstein (1974)
  • Sergiu Klainerman (1999)
  • Thomas Wolff 2 (1999)
  • Charles Fefferman (2008)
  • Carlos Kenig (2008)
  • Assaf Naor (2011)
  • Gunther Uhlmann (2011)
  • Larry Guth (2020)
  • Igor Rodnianski (2023)
  • Jérémie Szeftel (2023)
NOTES
1. See the entry entitled "Mathematical Prizes" on p. 1863 of the CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics (2nd Edition), by Eric W. Weisstein (Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2003).
2. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.

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