Ingrid Daubechies

Belgian physicist and mathematician · Belgium · On the map · Scientists · Born 1954 · age 72

Baroness Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgian-American physicist and mathematician at Duke University. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression.

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2025National Medal of ScienceAward2024Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward2020Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific ResearchAward2019L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in ScienceAward2018Honorary Doctorate at École Normale Supérieure de LyonAward2012Nemmers Prize in MathematicsAward2011Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAwardSteele Prize for Seminal Contribution to ResearchAward2010Guggenheim FellowshipAward2006Noether LectureAward2005Doctor Honoris Causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie UniversityAwardJosiah Willard Gibbs LectureshipAward1997Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in MathematicsAward1995“Mathematicians have various ways of judging the merits of new theorems and constructions.”In their words(1995) Wavelets and Other Phase Space Localization Methods. In: Chatterji, S.D. (ed.). Proceedings of the International Congress ofRead the whole statement

1993“... In their mathematical aspect, wavelets are rooted in the use of dilations and convolutions in Calderón-Zygmund theory in harmonic analysis. ...”In their words(1993) Preface. In: Daubechies, I. (ed.). Different Perspectives on Wavelets: American Mathematical Society Short Course, January 11-12,Read the whole statement

1992MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward1954Born17 August 1954

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The development of wavelets is an example where ideas from many different fields combined to merge into a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
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