JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE LEROY P.
STEELE PRIZE FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
(58%
of recipients)1
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- Salomon Bochner (1979)
- André Weil (1980)
- Gerhard Hochschild (1980)
- Oscar Zariski (1981)
- Fritz John 2 (1982)
- Joseph Doob (1984)
- Samuel Eilenberg (1987)
- Irving Kaplansky (1989)
- Raoul Bott 3 (1990)
- Eugenio Calabi (1991)
- Peter Lax (1993)
- Eugene Dynkin (1993)
- Louis Nirenberg (1994)
- Ralph Phillips (1997)
- Nathan Jacobson (1998)
- Richard Kadison (1999)
- I. M. Singer (2000)
- Harry Kesten (2001)
- Elias Stein (2002)
- Izrail Gelfand (2005)
- George Lusztig (2008)
NOTES
1. The Steele Prizes are
awarded
in three different categories, of which Lifetime Achievement is the
most
prestigious. Overall, Jews have received approximately 50% of the
Steele Prizes in all three categories.
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish
father; see Courant, by Constance Reid (Springer-Verlag, New
York,
1976, p. 153).
3. Jewish mother, non-Jewish
father; see Raoul Bott: Collected Papers, Vol. 1
(Birkhäuser,
Boston, 1994, pp. 11-12).
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