John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
genius, universal constructor, convert to Roman Catholicism, Pancreatic cancer death, Bone cancer death, American…Presidential Medal for Merit recipient, InstituteforAdvancedStudy, looking for a way to advance more rapidly
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...
Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson

male, 85 years old
physicist, mathematician, futurism, quantum mechanics, International Cooperation, Space advocacy…search for extraterrestrial intelligence, former Chairman of the Institute, Institute of Advanced Studies, president of the Space Studies Institute, InstituteforAdvancedStudy
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum...
Edward Witten

Edward Witten

male, 58 years old (United States)
Jewish person, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, American, m-theory, Fields Medalist, string theorist…InstituteforAdvancedStudy, Institute for Advanced Study employee
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He...
Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer

male, 74 years old
Philosophy & Public Affairs, Dissent magazine, tolerance, InstituteforAdvancedStudy, Ethnicity, Euston Manifesto signatories
Michael Walzer (3 March 1935) is a political theorist and writer on society, politics, and ethics. Currently, he is a professor at the Institute...
Eric Maskin

Eric Maskin

male, 58 years old
Harvard University, mechanism design, implementation theory, European Economic Association, economic theory, British Academy…InstituteforAdvancedStudy
Eric Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist. He is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for...
Robert Langlands

Robert Langlands

male, 73 years old
New Westminster, Robert Phelan Langlands, Langlands program, Wolf Prize recipient, arithmetic group, algebraic number theory…InstituteforAdvancedStudy
Robert Phelan Langlands (born October 6, 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada) is one of the most significant mathematicians of the...
Avi Wigderson

Avi Wigderson

male
Princeton University, professor, Israeli, mathematician, computer scientist, princeton…InstituteforAdvancedStudy
Avi Wigderson is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist who received the Nevanlinna Prize in 1994 for his work on computational...
Clifford Geertz

Clifford Geertz

male, deceased (2006) (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Anthropologist of religion, Death from surgical complications, Anthropologist, Clifford James Geertz, InstituteforAdvancedStudy, writer…Institute for Advanced Study Prince employee
Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study,...
Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl

male, deceased (1955)
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, Relativists, philosophy, Number theorist, Differential geometer, logic…InstituteforAdvancedStudy
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich and then Princeton, he is closely i...
Enrico Bombieri

Enrico Bombieri

male, 69 years old (New York, New York, United States)
Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem, Erdős number 2, number theory, mathematical analysis, Fields Medal, generalized Riemann hypothesis…InstituteforAdvancedStudy
Enrico Bombieri is an Italian mathematician, born in Milan. He is now at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is known for work in number theory,...