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Isadore Manuel Singer was an American mathematician. He was an emeritus institute professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a professor emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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science · American mathematician (1924–2021) · mathematician · university teacher · also Isadore Singer, Singer
Born 24 April 1924 · Died 11 February 2021 · Q353407
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The Guardian: The Singer review – come on feel the noise with KT Tunstall’s glowing gig theatre
Published “The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package*” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 5,009 times.
Died 2021-02-11.
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At his home in Boxborough, Massachusetts
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Published “The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package<sup>*</sup>” in The Astronomical Journal — cited 7,235 times.
Published “Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016” in Intensive Care Medicine — cited 5,020 times.
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,286 times.
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,744 times.
Published “The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)” in JAMA — cited 23,792 times.
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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Published “Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,618 times.
Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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Published “Rivaroxaban versus Warfarin in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 7,954 times.
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (2005).
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Awarded Abel Prize (2004).
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Published “Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis” — cited 6,596 times.
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (2002).
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Published “Prevalence of Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation in Adults” in JAMA — cited 5,106 times.
Awarded Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2000).
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Won Wigner Medal (1988).
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Won National Medal of Science (1983).
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Moved to the University of California, Berkeley as Miller Professor
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Published “The Fluid Mosaic Model of the Structure of Cell Membranes” in Science — cited 7,186 times.
Awarded Bôcher Memorial Prize (1969).
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1968).
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Which enabled new interactions between pure mathematics and theoretical physics
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Inspired by quantum mechanics, it turned out to have reformulations in engineering and computer science
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And was appointed as the Norbert Wiener Professor from 1970 to 1979
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Studied at University of Chicago, Doctor of Philosophy (1947–1950).
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After just two-and-a-half years so that he could join the military
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Studied at University of Michigan (1941–1944).
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In Detroit, Michigan, to Polish Jewish immigrants
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Born 1924-04-24.
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