Fritz John
Mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1910 to 1994 · aged 83
Fritz John was a German-born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. He was a 1984 MacArthur Fellow.
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1994Died10 February 19941984MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward1982Leroy P. Steele PrizeAward1975Josiah Willard Gibbs LectureshipAward1973George David Birkhoff PrizeAward1962Guggenheim FellowshipAward1910Born14 June 1910
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United States
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Academics
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Deceased
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Lived 1910 to 1994 · aged 83
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