Svetlana Jitomirskaya
Svetlana Jitomirskaya · Science & Medicine
Mathematical physicist of quasiperiodic operators; Heineman Prize (2020)
1966, Kharkiv, Soviet Union
Ukraine · United States
Svetlana Jitomirskaya is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Mathematical physicist of quasiperiodic operators; Heineman Prize (2020)
Jitomirskaya is a Soviet-born American mathematical physicist known for pioneering nonperturbative methods for quasiperiodic Schrödinger operators and, with Artur Avila, solving the 'Ten Martini Problem.' She received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 2020. She was born to a Jewish family in Kharkiv, daughter of two mathematics professors, and later emigrated to the United States.
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Mathematical physicist of quasiperiodic operators; Heineman Prize (2020)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dannie Heineman Prize
