Bôcher Memorial Prize
Jewish recipients of the Bôcher Memorial Prize documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 41% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
18 documented recipients
Solomon Lefschetz1884
Algebraic topology; Lefschetz fixed-point theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Norbert Wiener1894
Founded cybernetics and statistical communication theory.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
John von Neumann1945
Computer Architecture and Game Theory
Source: Manhattan Project / Princeton
Jesse Douglas1897
Solved Plateau's problem (first Fields Medal, 1936)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Norman Levinson1912
Analysis, number theory, and differential equations
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Louis Nirenberg1925
Partial differential equations; Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities (Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Paul Cohen1934
Forcing method; independence of the continuum hypothesis (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Isadore Singer1983
Co-author of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem uniting analysis and topology; Abel Prize (2004)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science
Donald Ornstein1934
Ergodic theory; the Ornstein isomorphism theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Sergiu Klainerman1950
Nonlinear PDEs and mathematical general relativity
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Thomas Wolff1999
Harmonic analyst of the Kakeya problem; Bôcher Prize (1999)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics (prize lists)
Charles Fefferman1949
Harmonic analysis and PDEs (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Carlos Kenig1953
Harmonic analysis and nonlinear dispersive PDEs
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Assaf Naor1975
Metric geometry and the geometry of Banach spaces
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Gunther Uhlmann1952
Inverse problems and the theory of cloaking
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Larry Guth1977
Combinatorial and metric geometry; the polynomial method
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Igor Rodnianski2023
Mathematician of general relativity and wave equations; Bôcher Prize (2023)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics (prize lists)
Jérémie Szeftel2023
French mathematician of black-hole stability; Bôcher Prize (2023)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics (prize lists)