Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
Jewish recipients of the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 55% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
29 documented recipients
Salomon Bochner1899
Harmonic analysis; Bochner's theorem on positive-definite functions
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Andre Weil1906
Number theory and algebraic geometry; the Weil conjectures
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Gerhard Hochschild1915
Homological algebra; Hochschild cohomology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Oscar Zariski1899
Algebraic geometry; the Zariski topology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Fritz John1910
Partial differential equations; the John ellipsoid
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Joseph Doob1910
Probability theory; martingale theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Samuel Eilenberg1913
Co-founder of category theory and algebraic topology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Irving Kaplansky1917
Algebra; ring theory and Kaplansky's conjectures
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Raoul Bott1923
Topology; Bott periodicity theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Eugenio Calabi1923
Differential geometry; Calabi-Yau manifolds
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Peter Lax1926
Partial differential equations; Lax pairs and Lax-Milgram (Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Eugene Dynkin1924
Lie algebras and probability; Dynkin diagrams
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Louis Nirenberg1925
Partial differential equations; Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities (Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Ralph Phillips1913
Functional analysis; Lax-Phillips scattering theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Nathan Jacobson1910
Abstract algebra; the Jacobson radical
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Richard Kadison1925
Operator algebras; theory of von Neumann algebras
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
Harry Kesten1931
Probability theory; percolation and random walks
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Elias Stein1931
Harmonic analysis; singular integrals and oscillatory integrals
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Israel Gelfand1913
Functional analysis; Gelfand representation of Banach algebras
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
George Lusztig1946
Representation theory; Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Yakov Sinai1935
Dynamical systems and statistical mechanics (Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Victor Kac1943
Kac-Moody algebras in representation theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Barry Simon1946
Mathematical physics; Schrodinger operators
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Jeff Cheeger1943
Differential geometry; the Cheeger constant and inequality
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Spencer Bloch1944
Algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Richard Stanley1944
Algebraic and enumerative combinatorics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Nicholas Katz1943
Arithmetic algebraic geometry; monodromy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Haim Brezis1944
Functional analysis and nonlinear partial differential equations
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics