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Pavel Winternitz

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Pavel Winternitz · Science & Medicine

What

Mathematical physicist; symmetries and integrable systems

When

1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia — 2021, Montreal, Canada

Where

Czechoslovakia · Soviet Union · Canada

Biography

Pavel Winternitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Mathematical physicist; symmetries and integrable systems

How & why

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

1936

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics