# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-volberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:41:22.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-volberg"
name: "Alexander Volberg"
slug: "alexander-volberg"
description: "Alexander Volberg is a Russian mathematician. He is working in operator theory, complex analysis and harmonic analysis. He received the Salem Prize in 1988 for his work in harmonic analysis. He also received the Lars Onsager medal in 2004. He is currently a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. From 2007 to 2008 he was the Sir Edmund Whittaker Professor of Mathematical Science at the University of Edinburgh."
tagline: "Russian mathematician"
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birthDate: "1956-03-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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    title: "Вольберг, Александр Львович"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump