JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE WOLF PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS
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Listed below are recipients of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics who were, or are, Jewish (or of half-Jewish descent, as noted). The Wolf Prize is generally considered to be one of the two or three most prestigious international awards in mathematics.NOTES
- Israel Gelfand (1978)
- André Weil (1979)
- Oscar Zariski (1981)
- Mark Krein (1982)
- Paul Erdös (1983/84)
- Hans Lewy (1984/85)
- Samuel Eilenberg (1986)
- Peter Lax (1987)
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1990)
- Mikhael Gromov 1 (1993)
- Joseph Keller (1996/97)
- Yakov Sinai (1996/97)
- Elias Stein (1999)
- Raoul Bott 2 (2000)
- Vladimir Arnold 3 (2001)
- Saharon Shelah (2001)
- Gregori Margulis (2005)
- Harry (Hillel) Furstenberg (2006/07)
- George Mostow (2013)
- Peter Sarnak (2014)
- Charles Fefferman (2017)
- Alexander Beilinson (2018)
- Vladimir Drinfeld (2018)
- Yakov Eliashberg (2020)
- George Lusztig (2022)
- Noga Alon (2024)
- Adi Shamir (2024)
1. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century, by Masha Gessen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2009, p. 108).
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Raoul Bott: Collected Papers, Vol. 1 (Birkhäuser, Boston, 1994, pp. 11-12).
3. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Celestial Encounters, by F. Diacu and P. Holmes (Princeton, 1996, p. 191).
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