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Date of Birth
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22-April-1952
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Place of Birth
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Saint Petersburg
(Russia, Northwestern Federal District)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Russia
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Also know as
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Igor B. Frenkel, Igor Borisovich Frenkel
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Profession
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Mathematician
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Igor Borisovich Frenkel is a Russian mathematician at Yale University working in representation theory and mathematical physics.
Frenkel emigrated to the United States in 1979. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1980 with a dissertation on the "Orbital Theory for Affine Lie Algebras". He held positions at the IAS and MSRI, and a tenured professorship at Rutgers University, before taking his current job of tenured professor at Yale University.
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