Michael Rapoport
Born (1948-10-02) 2 October 1948
NationalityAustrian
Alma materParis-Sud 11 University
Known forWorks on Shimura varieties and Langlands program
AwardsLeibniz Prize (1992)
Heinz Hopf Prize (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Bonn
Doctoral advisorPierre Deligne
Doctoral students

Michael Rapoport (born 2 October 1948)[1] is an Austrian mathematician.

Career

Rapoport received his PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1976, under the supervision of Pierre Deligne.[2] He held a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bonn,[3] as well as a visiting appointment at the University of Maryland. In 1992, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize,[4] in 1999 he won the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize,[5] and he is the recipient of the 2011 Heinz Hopf Prize.[6] In 1994, he was an Invited Speaker (with talk Non-Archimedean period domains) at the ICM in Zürich.

Rapoport's students include Maria Heep-Altiner, Werner Baer, Peter Scholze, Eva Viehmann.[2]

Personal life

Michael Rapoport is the son of pediatrician Ingeborg Rapoport and biochemist Samuel Mitja Rapoport, and brother of biochemist Tom Rapoport.

Selected publications

References

  1. "HCM: Prof. Dr. Michael Rapoport". hcm.uni-bonn.de. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 Michael Rapoport at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Prof. Dr. Michael Rapoport (i.R.)". Mathematisches Institut der Universität Bonn (in German). 19 October 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  4. List of Leibniz Prize winners from 1986 to 2022, DFG
  5. "Gay-Lussac/Humboldt-Preis für Professor Rapoport". idw – Informationsdienst Wissenschaft e.V. (in German). 17 July 2000. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  6. "Laureates". ETH Zurich. 22 September 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.