Awards & Winners

Louis Nirenberg

Date of Birth 28-February-1925
Place of Birth Hamilton
(Ontario, Canada)
Nationality United States of America, Canada
Also know as L. Nirenberg
Profession Mathematician
Louis Nirenberg is a Canadian-born American mathematician, considered one of the outstanding analysts of the twentieth century. He has made fundamental contributions to linear and nonlinear partial differential equations and their application to complex analysis and geometry. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario and attended Baron Byng High School. He studied as an undergraduate at McGill University, and obtained his doctorate from New York University in 1949 under the direction of James Stoker. He became a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He was also conferred the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, at the University of British Columbia in 2010. He has received many honours and awards, including the Crafoord Prize, the Bôcher Memorial Prize, the Jeffery-Williams Prize, the Steele Prize, the National Medal of Science, and the Chern Medal. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Awards by Louis Nirenberg

Check all the awards nominated and won by Louis Nirenberg.

2010


Chern Medal
(For his role in the formulation of the modern theory of non-linear elliptic partial differential equations and for mentoring numerous students and post-docs in this area.)

1995


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For his fundamental contributions to linear and nonlinear partial differential equations, and applications, particularly in geometry and complex analysis, thus having a decisive impact on the development of mathematics and its applications over a period of years.)