Texarkana Gazette: Peter Lax, preeminent Cold War mathematician, dies at 99
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Peter Lax
Peter David Lax was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.
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Born 1 May 1926 · Died 16 May 2025 · Q323331
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2025· 2 entries
Died 2025-05-16.
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2013· 2 entries
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (2013).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009).
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Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Abel Prize (2005).
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1999· 1 entry
Lax married Courant's daughter, Lori Berkowitz
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Peking University (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Leroy P. Steele Prize (1992).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1987).
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1986· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1986).
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The Wolf Prize in 1987, the Abel Prize in 2005 and the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2013
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (1979).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics (1975).
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Chauvenet Prize (1974).
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His shock wave article also won the Chauvenet Prize
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1972· 1 entry
Career landmark: Director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (1972–1980).
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1970· 1 entry
As part of an anti-war protest, the Transcendental Students took hostage a CDC 6600 super computer at NYU's Courant Institute which Lax had been instrumental in acquiring; the students demanded $100,000 in ransom (equiva
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1966).
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1949· 1 entry
Studied at New York University, doctorate (1943–1949).
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1948· 1 entry
And earning a PhD in 1949 under the supervision of Kurt O
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1943· 1 entry
Studied at Stuyvesant High School (1941–1943).
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-05-01.
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