Published “Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 21,211 times.
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Carl Ludwig Siegel
Carl Ludwig Siegel was a German mathematician specialising in analytic number theory. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation, Siegel's method, Siegel's lemma and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms. He has been named one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century.
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science · German mathematician (1896–1981) · mathematician · university teacher · also Carl Ludwig Siegel, Siegel
Born 31 December 1896 · Died 4 April 1981 · Q61721
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2023· 1 entry
Published “Cancer statistics, 2023” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 13,291 times.
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2021· 1 entry
Published “Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 79,580 times.
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Cancer statistics, 2020” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 14,499 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Cancer statistics, 2019” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 13,902 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 53,903 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Global cancer statistics, 2012” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 18,619 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Corporate Social Responsibility: A Theory of the Firm Perspective” in The Academy of Management Review — cited 18,172 times.
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1981· 1 entry
Died 1981-04-04.
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1978).
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Was awarded the first Wolf Prize in Mathematics, one of the most prestigious in the field
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1968· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign associate of the U
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1964).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1963).
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Nancy (1954).
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1951· 1 entry
Which he kept until his retirement in 1959
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1938· 1 entry
Returned to Göttingen before emigrating in 1940 via Norway to the United States, where he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he had already spent a sabbatical in 1935
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1936· 1 entry
Was a Plenary Speaker at the ICM in Oslo
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1922· 1 entry
Was appointed professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt as the successor of Arthur Moritz Schönflies
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1920· 1 entry
Studied at University of Göttingen (1919–1920).
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1917· 2 entries
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1915–1917).
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During World War I he was committed to a psychiatric institute as a conscientious objector
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1915· 1 entry
As a student in mathematics, astronomy, and physics
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-12-31.
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