JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE DANNIE HEINEMAN PRIZE
FOR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
(38% of recipients)JINFO.ORG
Listed below are recipients of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics who were, or are, Jewish (or of half-Jewish descent, as noted). This award is considered to be among the two or three most prestigious in the field of theoretical and mathematical physics.NOTES
- Murray Gell-Mann (1959)
- Marvin Goldberger (1961)
- Sergio Fubini (1968)
- Steven Weinberg (1977)
- Elliott Lieb (1978)
- Arthur Jaffe (1980)
- Jeffrey Goldstone (1981)
- Martin Kruskal (1983)
- Alexander Polyakov (1986)
- Yakov Sinai (1990)
- Stanley Mandelstam (1992)
- Richard Arnowitt (1994)
- Stanley Deser (1994)
- Roy Glauber (1996)
- Nathan Seiberg (1998)
- Edward Witten (1998)
- Sidney Coleman (2000)
- Vladimir Arnold 1 (2001)
- Michael Green (2002)
- John Schwarz (2002)
- Gabriele Veneziano (2004)
- Daniel Freedman (2006)
- Mitchell Feigenbaum (2008)
- Raymond Stora (2009)
- Igor Tyutin 2 (2009)
- Michael Aizenman (2010)
- Giovanni Jona-Lasinio 3 (2012)
- Andrew Strominger 4 (2016)
- Carl Bender (2017)
- Barry Simon (2018)
- Svetlana Jitomirskaya (2020)
- Joel Lebowitz (2021)
- Nikita Nekrasov (2023)
- Samson Shatashvili (2025)
1. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Celestial Encounters, by F. Diacu and P. Holmes (Princeton, 1996, p. 191).
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Felix Berezin: The Life and Death of the Mastermind of Supermathematics, edited by Mikhail Shifman (World Scientific, Singapore, London, and Hackensack, NJ, 2007, p.191).
3. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. See "A Jew in Rome," by Richard Ellis in the April 2001 issue of Midstream.
4. Jewish father, biochemist Jack Strominger.
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