Pavel Winternitz
Pavel Winternitz · Science & Medicine
Mathematical physicist; symmetries and integrable systems
1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia — 2021, Montreal, Canada
Czechoslovakia · Soviet Union · Canada
Pavel Winternitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Mathematical physicist; symmetries and integrable systems
Winternitz was a Czech-born Canadian mathematical physicist and a founder of the Montreal school of mathematical physics at the Universite de Montreal, celebrated for his work on symmetries, superintegrable systems and the applications of Lie group theory to physics. He received the Wigner Medal in 2018. He came from a Czech Jewish family and lived through the Second World War as a child in occupied Bohemia.
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Mathematical physicist; symmetries and integrable systems
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