Peter Lax - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	01-May-1926
Place of Birth	Budapest (Hungary, Central Hungary)
Nationality	Hungary, United States of America
Also know as	Peter D Lax
Profession	Mathematician
Peter David Lax is an American mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields. Lax is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.

Awards by Peter Lax

Check all the awards nominated and won by Peter Lax.

2005

Abel Prize	(For his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions.)

1987

Wolf Prize in Mathematics	(for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.)

1986

National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science	(For his outstanding, innovative and profound contributions to the theory of partial differential equations, applied mathematics, numerical analysis and scientific computation.)

1974

Chauvenet Prize	(For his paper, The Formation and Decay of Shock Waves.)

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