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 1(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 2 (2001)
- Michael Green (2002)
- John Schwarz (2002)
- Gabriele Veneziano (2004)
- Daniel Freedman (2006)
- Mitchell Feigenbaum (2008)
- Raymond Stora (2009)
- Igor Tyutin 3 (2009)
- Michael Aizenman (2010)
1. See http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_p.htm.
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Celestial Encounters, by F. Diacu and P. Holmes (Princeton, 1996, p. 191).
3. 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).
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