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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

ALBERTO P. CALDERON

Title: Professor of Mathematics Emeritus
Affiliation:   University of Chicago
    Department of Mathematics
    5734 S. University Avenue
    Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA
Gender:   Male
Year Deceased:   1998
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Award Discipline:   Mathematics and Computer Science
Award Year:   1991
Citation:   "For his ground-breaking work on singular integral operators leading to their application to important problems in partial differential equations, including his proof of uniqueness in the Cauchy problem, the Atiyah-Singer index theorem and the propagation of singularities of non-linear equations."
    Presented by President Bush at a White House Rose Garden Ceremony on September 16, 1991.

 

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