Encyclopaedia Britannica: Marshall Warren Nirenberg
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Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century.
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science · Canadian-American mathematician (1925–2020) · mathematician · university teacher · scientist · also Louis Nirenberg, Nirenberg
Born 28 February 1925 · Died 26 January 2020 · Q596590
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2026· 2 entries
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: David Nirenberg
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2020· 2 entries
Nirenberg died at the age of 94
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Died 2020-01-26.
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Abel Prize (2015).
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (2014).
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The American Mathematical Society recognized Caffarelli−Kohn−Nirenberg's paper with the Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research, saying that their work was a "landmark" providing a "source of inspiration for a
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2010· 1 entry
Won Chern Medal (2010).
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1995· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1994).
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1991· 1 entry
Brezis and Nirenberg showed how Ekeland's variational principle could be applied to extend the mountain pass theorem, with the effect that almost-critical points can be found without requiring the Palais−Smale condition
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Paris Dauphine University (1989).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Crafoord Prize in Mathematics (1982).
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1977· 1 entry
Shiu-Yuen Cheng and Shing-Tung Yau resolved the existence and interior regularity for the Monge-Ampère equation, showing in particular that if the determinant of the hessian of a function is smooth, then the function its
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1971· 1 entry
James Serrin utilized Alexandrov's technique to prove that highly symmetric solutions of certain second-order elliptic partial differential equations must be supported on symmetric domains
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1970· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1970–1972).
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1966).
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Bôcher Memorial Prize (1959).
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1949· 2 entries
Obtained his doctorate in mathematics, under the direction of James Stoker
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Studied at New York University (1945–1949).
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1945· 1 entry
Studied at McGill University (1942–1945).
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1942· 1 entry
Studied at Baron Byng High School (1942).
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-02-28.
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