JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE BÔCHER
MEMORIAL PRIZE
(45%
of recipients)
THIS
WEBPAGE IS PART OF THE JINFO.ORG
WEBSITE.
- Solomon Lefschetz (1924)
- Norbert Wiener (1933)
- John von Neumann (1938)
- Jesse Douglas 1
(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)
NOTES
1. According to the
obituary
notice for Jesse Douglas published in the October 8, 1965 edition of The
New York Herald Tribune, he died at Mount Sinai Hospital in
Manhattan
and his funeral was held the following day at the "The Riverside" (the
largest exclusively Jewish funeral chapel in New York City).
Douglas, who was
the first recipient of a Fields Medal, was born in New York City
and educated
at the City College of New York and at Columbia University. His
entry
in the 1964-1965 edition of Marquis Who's Who in America
indicates
that his mother's maiden name was Sarah Kommel. The name "Kommel"
is most frequently found among Jews originating in the Pale of
Settlement; see A
Dictionary
of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire, by Alexander Beider
(Avotaynu,
Inc., Teaneck NJ, 1993, p. 326). Both parents were, in fact,
Jewish immigrants from Russia. The death notice
lists a brother, Dr. Harold Douglas, and a sister, Pearl Schweizer,
among his
survivors. Dr. Harold Douglas maintained medical offices at Beth
Israel
Medical
Center in lower Manhattan.