Noam Elkies

Noam Elkies

male, 43 years old (New York, New York, United States)
Harvard University, composer, National Puzzlers' League, NOM, still life, Jewish person…PutnamFellows, Putnam Fellow
Noam D. Elkies (born 1966 in New York City) is a mathematician. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow....
Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

male, deceased (1988) (FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, United States)
scientist, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, physicist, Caltech, free spirit, Princeton University alumni…Putnam Fellow, PutnamFellows
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of...
Ravi Vakil

Ravi Vakil

male, 39 years old
Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Universite de Montreal, Putnam Fellow, NSF, National Science Foundation, American Mathematical Society…PutnamFellows, William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, putnam
Ravi D. Vakil (born February 22, 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-American mathematician. Vakil attended high school at Martingrove...
Don Coppersmith

Don Coppersmith

male
Harvard University, Mars, Institute for Defense Analyses, Erdős number 2, PutnamFellows, block cipher…Putnam Fellow
Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM,...
Arthur Rubin

Arthur Rubin

male, 53 years old
Jewish person, Putnam Fellow, Jewish, graph theory, PutnamFellows, Erdős number…William Lowell Putnam Competition
Arthur L. Rubin is an American mathematician who has earned a place among the five top-ranked undergraduate competitors (who are themselves not...
John Milnor

John Milnor

male, 78 years old
Putnam Fellow, mathematician, John Willard Milnor, differential topology, Fields Medal, Wolf Prize recipient…PutnamFellows
John Willard Milnor (b. February 20, 1931 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology,...
Kenneth G. Wilson

Kenneth G. Wilson

male, 73 years old
Steve Shenker, Scottish-American, Nobel laureate in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, quantum field theory, Wolf Prize in Physics recipient…William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, PutnamFellows, Putnam Fellow
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American theoretical physicist. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned...
Irving Kaplansky

Irving Kaplansky

male, deceased (2006)
Putnam Fellow, Jewish person, Jewish, professor, mathematician, university of toronto…PutnamFellows
Irving Kaplansky was a Canadian mathematician. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and attended the University of Toronto as an undergraduate....
David Mumford

David Mumford

male, 72 years old (Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
Brown University faculty, Fields Medalist, Putnam Fellow, Phillips Exeter Academy alumni, Harvard University faculty, Harvard University alumni…PutnamFellows
David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research...
Melanie Wood

Melanie Wood

female, 28 years old
Melanie Matchett Wood, From Indianapolis, Indiana, Putnam Fellow, Princeton University, From Indianapolis, American…PutnamFellows
Melanie Matchett Wood, born 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a graduate student mathematician currently studying at Princeton University. She has...