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Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917) was a German organic chemist whose groundbreaking research advanced synthetic dye production and the…

Alan J.

Salvadoran-American physicist (1933–2015)

Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is a British mathematician renowned for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had eluded…

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist renowned for co-inventing the laser and pioneering laser spectroscopy.

Avi Wigderson is an Israeli-American mathematician and computer scientist renowned for his pioneering work in theoretical computer science, particularly in…

Benoît Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician renowned as the founder of fractal geometry, a…

Bruce Alan Beutler (born December 29, 1957) is an American geneticist and immunologist best known for his discoveries elucidating the mechanisms of innate…

German mathematician (1862–1943)

Elon Lindenstrauss is an Israeli mathematician born on August 1, 1970, in Jerusalem, specializing in ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and their applications…

Emanuel Lasker (24 December 1868 – 11 January 1941) was a German mathematician, philosopher, and chess grandmaster who reigned as the second World Chess…

Mathematician whose theorem ties symmetry to the conservation laws of physics.

Felix Christian Klein (25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician best known for his foundational contributions to geometry, particularly…

Gary Stanley Becker (December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist and sociologist who pioneered the application of economic theory to social…

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (12 January 1853 – 6 August 1925) was an Italian mathematician best known for inventing tensor calculus, a mathematical framework for…

Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis (born February 24, 1946) is a Russian-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to the theory of Lie…

Hermann Broch (1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian novelist, philosopher, and mathematician of Jewish origin, best known for his modernist trilogy…

Hillel Furstenberg (born September 29, 1935) is an Israeli-American mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in ergodic theory and its applications to…

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pavel Cherenkov and Igor Tamm…

Jean Leray (7 November 1906 – 10 November 1998) was a French mathematician whose groundbreaking work in partial differential equations, algebraic topology,…

Julian Schwinger (1918–1994) was an American theoretical physicist best known for his pioneering work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), which resolved key…

American economist (1921–2017)

Kenneth G.

Kirill Gerstein (born October 23, 1979) is a Russian-born American classical pianist acclaimed for his virtuosic interpretations of both canonical and…

Leo Perutz (1882–1957) was an Austrian-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and mathematician renowned for blending historical fiction with mystery, irony, and…

American mathematician and physicist (1922–2018)

Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist, professor, and Turing Award laureate best known for co-inventing the RSA…

Leonid Hurwicz (August 21, 1917 – June 24, 2008) was a Polish-American economist and mathematician who pioneered mechanism design theory, a framework for…

Russian mathematician (1912–1986)

Leonid Anatolievich Levin (born November 2, 1948) is a Soviet-born American mathematician and computer scientist renowned for his pioneering work in…

Leopold Kronecker (7 December 1823 – 29 December 1891) was a German mathematician whose work profoundly influenced number theory, algebra, and the philosophy…

Lloyd Shapley (June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was an American mathematician and economist renowned for his pioneering contributions to game theory,…

French and American conductor (1930–2014)

Louis Wolheim (March 28, 1880 – February 18, 1931) was an American character actor best known for his portrayals of tough, grizzled villains and anti-heroes…

American cognitive scientist (1927–2016)