Awards & Winners

Oscar Zariski

Date of Birth 24-April-1899
Place of Birth Kobryn
(Belarus, Brest, Kobryn Raion)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Mathematician, Scientist
Oscar Zariski was an American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.

Awards by Oscar Zariski

Check all the awards nominated and won by Oscar Zariski.

1981


Wolf Prize in Mathematics
(creator of the modern approach to algebraic geometry, by its fusion with commutative algebra.)

1965


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For his creation of a rigorous abstract theory of algebraic geometry, and for his profound influence--especially through many brilliant students--on the algebraic structure of contemporary pure mathematics.)