# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/israel-gelfand
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:04:40.167Z

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name: "Israel Gelfand"
slug: "israel-gelfand"
description: "Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand was a prominent Soviet and American mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, biologist, teacher and organizer of mathematical education. He made significant contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and functional analysis. The recipient of many awards, including the Order of Lenin and the first Wolf Prize, he was a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society and professor at Moscow State University and, after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday, at Rutgers University. Gelfand is also a 1994 MacArthur Fellow."
tagline: "Soviet-American mathematician"
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birthDate: "1913-08-20"
deathDate: "2009-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump