Category:Louis Nirenberg

**Louis Nirenberg**
	American mathematician of Canadian origin (1925-2020) Louis Nirenberg el 1975
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Name in native language	Louis Nirenberg;
Date of birth	28 February 1925; Hamilton
Date of death	26 January 2020; New York City
Country of citizenship	Canada; United States of America;
Educated at	McGill University (1942–1945); New York University (1945–1949); Baron Byng High School (–1942);
Doctoral advisor	James J. Stoker;
Doctoral student	Sergiu Klainerman (1978); Xavier Cabré (1994); Walter Craig (1981); Norberto Kerzman (1970); Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo (1961); Peter B. Gilkey (1972); Gabriella Tarantello (1986); Wei-Ming Ni (1979); Yanyan Li (1988); Martin Schechter (1957); Chang-Shou Lin (1983); Walter Littman (1956); Zhengfang Zhou (1986); John Herbert Sylvester (1980); Monty J. Strauss (1971); Chin-Hung Ching (1971); David Hoitsma (1973); Eric Liban (1957); August Newlander (1957); Edgar Kann (1960); …;
Occupation	mathematician; university teacher; scientist;
Employer	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU (professor emeritus, 1949–1999);
Member of	French Academy of Sciences (foreign member, 1989–); National Academy of Sciences (Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 1969–); Lincean Academy; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Mathematical Society (Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012–);
Position held	director (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, 1970–1972);
Field of work	partial differential equation; mathematics; inequality;
Notable work	Gagliardo–Nirenberg interpolation inequality; Nirenberg's conjecture;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship (1966, 1975); Chern Medal (2010); Abel Prize (2015); National Medal of Science (1995); Bôcher Memorial Prize (1959); Crafoord Prize in Mathematics (1982); Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1994); Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (2014); honorary doctorate from McMaster University; honorary doctorate from the McGill University; honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia; honorary doctor of Paris Dauphine University; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013);
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