Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson

male, 86 years old
physicist, mathematician, futurism, quantum mechanics, International Cooperation, Space advocacy…Cornell University alumni, Duke University faculty, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, former Chairman of the Institute, Institute of Advanced Studies
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum...
Robert Langlands

Robert Langlands

male, 73 years old
New Westminster, Robert Phelan Langlands, Langlands program, Wolf Prize recipient, arithmetic group, algebraic number theory…Yale University, PrincetonUniversity, University of British Columbia, graduated from the University of British Columbia, 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
PrincetonUniversity, professor, Israeli, mathematician, computer scientist, princeton…InstituteforAdvancedStudy, university of california berkeley
Avi Wigderson is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist who received the Nevanlinna Prize in 1994 for his work on computational...
Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak

male, 56 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Erdős number 2, InstituteforAdvancedStudy, Jewish, Peter Clive Sarnak, Paul Cohen, Annals of Mathematics…Stanford University alumni, New York University faculty, Stanford University faculty, Stanford University, PrincetonUniversity
Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December, 1953, Johannesburg) is a South African-born mathematician. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of...
Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku

male, 62 years old
electromagnetism, Harvard University, Theoretical physicist, string theorist, Dr. Michio Kaku, einstein…University of California, Berkeley alumni, New York University, PrincetonUniversity, University of California, Berkeley, princeton
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring...
Oskar Morgenstern

Oskar Morgenstern

male, deceased (1977)
Neumann-Morgenstern utility, from Görlitz, Austrian, game theory, game theorist, hitler…InstituteforAdvancedStudy, PrincetonUniversity
Oskar Morgenstern was a German born Austrian economist who, working with John von Neumann, helped found the mathematical field of game theory (see...

Phillip Griffiths

male, 71 years old
Duke University faculty, Princeton University alumni, complex number, partial differential equations, complex manifold, Joe Harris…Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, PrincetonUniversity, Duke University, InstituteforAdvancedStudy
Phillip Griffiths (born 1938) is a American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold...
Wolf Lepenies

Wolf Lepenies

male, 68 years old
PrincetonUniversity, habilitation, North Rhine-Westphalia, habilitated, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Axel Springer AG…University of Münster, InstituteforAdvancedStudy, Free University of Berlin
Wolf Lepenies is a German sociologist, political scientist, and author. Lepenies grew up in Koblenz, where his family moved after World War II. He...
Nathan Seiberg

Nathan Seiberg

male, 53 years old
American, Israel-born, open string, physicist, MacArthur Fellow, string theory…InstituteforAdvancedStudy, PrincetonUniversity, Rutgers University
Nathan "Nati" Seiberg, born in 1956, is an Israel-born American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is currently a professor at...
Oleg Grabar

Oleg Grabar

male
Art historian, Harvard University, University of Michigan, historian, American Middle Eastern studies, islam…PrincetonUniversity, InstituteforAdvancedStudy
Oleg Grabar is a historian and archeologist, specializing in the field of Islamic art and architecture. Grabar obtained a Ph.d. from Princeton...
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