JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE OSWALD VEBLEN PRIZE
IN GEOMETRY
(35% of recipients)JINFO.ORG
Listed below are recipients of the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry who were, or are, Jewish (or of half-Jewish ancestry, as indicated). The Veblen Prize is considered to be one of the most prestigious in the fields of geometry and topology.NOTES
- Raoul Bott 1 (1964)
- Morton Brown (1966)
- Barry Mazur (1966)
- James Simons (1976)
- Mikhael Gromov 2 (1981)
- Michael Freedman 3 (1986)
- Clifford Taubes (1991)
- Jeff Cheeger (2001)
- Yakov Eliashberg (2001)
- David Gabai (2004)
- Peter Kronheimer (2007)
- Peter Ozsváth (2007)
- Daniel Wise (2013)
1. Jewish mother and step-father, non-Jewish father; see Raoul Bott: Collected Papers, Vol. 1 (Birkhäuser, Boston, 1994, pp. 11-12).
2. Jewish mother; non-Jewish father.
3. Jewish father.
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