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

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.