Veblen Prize in Geometry
Jewish recipients of the Veblen Prize in Geometry documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 33% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
13 documented recipients
Raoul Bott1923
Topology; Bott periodicity theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Morton Brown1931
Topology; the generalized Schoenflies theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Barry Mazur1937
Number theory and arithmetic geometry; foundational to Fermat's proof
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
James Simons1976
Co-author of Chern-Simons theory; Veblen Prize (1976); founded Renaissance Technologies and Math for America
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics (prize lists)
Mikhail Gromov2009
Geometer who reshaped modern geometry; Abel Prize (2009), Wolf Prize (1993)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Michael Freedman1951
Solved the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Clifford Taubes1954
Gauge theory and differential geometry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Jeff Cheeger1943
Differential geometry; the Cheeger constant and inequality
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Yakov Eliashberg1946
Symplectic and contact geometry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
David Gabai1954
Low-dimensional topology and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Peter Kronheimer1963
Gauge theory and low-dimensional topology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Peter Ozsvath1967
Co-developed Heegaard Floer homology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Daniel Wise1971
Geometric group theory; special cube complexes
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics