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Canadian-born American mathematician
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Born:
February 28, 1925, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Died:
January 26, 2020, New York, New York, U.S. (aged 94)
Awards And Honors:
Abel Prize (2015)
National Medal of Science (1995)

Louis Nirenberg (born February 28, 1925, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada—died January 26, 2020, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Canadian-born American mathematician who was noted for his work in analysis, with an emphasis on partial differential equations. In 2015 he was a recipient (with John F. Nash, Jr.) of the Abel Prize. Nirenberg grew up in Montreal and received a bachelor’s degree (1945) in physics and mathematics from McGill University. He expected to continue his education in theoretical physics and worked in the summer of 1945 at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in Montreal. At the NRC Nirenberg ...(100 of 416 words)

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