JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE BÔCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE
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Listed below are recipients of the Bôcher Memorial Prize in Mathematics who were, or are, Jewish. The Bôcher Prize is considered to be one of the five most prestigious in the field of mathematics.1NOTES
- Solomon Lefschetz (1924)
- Norbert Wiener (1933)
- John von Neumann (1938)
- Jesse Douglas (1943)
- Norman Levinson (1953)
- Louis Nirenberg (1959)
- Paul Cohen (1964)
- I. M. Singer (1969)
- Donald Ornstein (1974)
- Leon Simon (1994)
- Sergiu Klainerman (1999)
- Charles Fefferman (2008)
- Carlos Kenig (2008)
- Assaf Naor (2011)
1. See the entry entitled "Mathematical Prizes" on p. 1863 of the CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics (2nd Edition), by Eric W. Weisstein (Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2003).
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