JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE LEROY P. STEELE PRIZE FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
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Listed below are recipients of the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics who were, or are, Jewish (or of half-Jewish descent, as noted). The Steele Prizes are awarded in three different categories, of which Lifetime Achievement is the most prestigious. Overall, Jews have received approximately 50% of the Steele Prizes in all three categories.NOTES
- Salomon Bochner (1979)
- André Weil (1980)
- Gerhard Hochschild (1980)
- Oscar Zariski (1981)
- Fritz John 1 (1982)
- Joseph Doob (1984)
- Samuel Eilenberg (1987)
- Irving Kaplansky (1989)
- Raoul Bott 2 (1990)
- Eugenio Calabi (1991)
- Peter Lax (1993)
- Eugene Dynkin (1993)
- Louis Nirenberg (1994)
- Ralph Phillips (1997)
- Nathan Jacobson (1998)
- Richard Kadison (1999)
- I. M. Singer (2000)
- Harry Kesten (2001)
- Elias Stein (2002)
- Israel Gelfand (2005)
- George Lusztig (2008)
- Yakov Sinai (2013)
- Victor Kac (2015)
- Barry Simon (2016)
- Jeff Cheeger (2019)
- Spencer Bloch 3 (2021)
- Richard Stanley (2022)
- Nicholas Katz (2023)
- Haïm Brezis (2024)
1. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Courant, by Constance Reid (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1976, p. 153).
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Raoul Bott: Collected Papers, Vol. 1 (Birkhäuser, Boston, 1994, pp. 11-12).
3. Jewish father.
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