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Oscar Zariski National Medal of Science Awarded In 1965

 
Oscar Zariski

Oscar Zariski

Award Name : National Medal of Science

Year of Award : 1965

Award for : Mathematics

Location : Kobryn, Brestskaya Voblastsʼ, Belarus

 

Oscar Zariski was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. Zariski was born on April 24, 1899 in Kobrin, Russian Empire to a Jewish family. His parents were Bezalel Zaritsky and Hanna Tennenbaum and in 1918 studied at the University of Kiev. He left Kiev in 1920 to study in Rome where he became a disciple of the Italian school of algebraic geometry, studying with Guido Castelnuovo, Federigo Enriques and Francesco Severi. He received the National Medal Of Science in 1965. He died on July 4, 1986 (aged 87) in Brookline, Massachusetts.

 

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