JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE BÔCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE
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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.1NOTES
- 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)
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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