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Martin David Kruskal

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American mathematician (1925-2006)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1925 to 2006 · aged 81
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Martin David Kruskal was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis. His most celebrated contribution was in the theory of solitons.

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2006Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
1997Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1993National Medal of Science
1986Howard N. Potts Medal
1983Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
1979Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
1960Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Luis CaffarelliAlso won Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to ResearchJan BurgersAlso won Josiah Willard Gibbs LectureshipIra S. BowenAlso won Howard N. Potts MedalMichael GreenAlso won Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical PhysicsJürgen MoserAlso won Josiah Willard Gibbs LectureshipLudvig FaddeevAlso won Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

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United States
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Academics
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deceased
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Lived 1925 to 2006 · aged 81
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