Holger Crafoord

Holger Crafoord

male
inventor, swedish, Swedish nobility, Business Person, CrafoordPrize, artificial kidney
Holger Crafoord, was a Swedish industrialist and the inventor of the artificial kidney. He donated the initial funds for the establishment of the...
Alexander Grothendieck

Alexander Grothendieck

male, 81 years old
Pacifist, From Berlin, Harvard University, CrafoordPrize, homological algebra, Fields Medal
Alexander Grothendieck (born March 28, 1928 in Berlin, Germany) is one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century. He is also one of...
George C. Williams

George C. Williams

male, 83 years old
ichthyological, marine biology, adaptation, selection, evolution of sex, genes…CrafoordPrize
Professor George Christopher Williams (b. May 12, 1926) is an American evolutionary biologist. Williams is a professor emeritus of biology at the...
Louis Nirenberg

Louis Nirenberg

male, 84 years old
New York University, CrafoordPrize, Bôcher Prize, Canadian expatriate academic in the United States, National Medal of Science, National Medal of Science recipient
Louis Nirenberg is a Canadian-born mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario. He...
Dan McKenzie

Dan McKenzie

male, 67 years old
professor, magma, Royal Society, Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the Companions of Honour, CrafoordPrize
Dan McKenzie, CH, FRS ("b." 1942) is a Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge University, and one-time head of the Bullard Laboratories. He was a...