Category:Peter Lax

**Peter Lax**
	American mathematician of Hungarian origin
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Date of birth	1 May 1926; Budapest
Country of citizenship	Hungary; United States of America;
Educated at	Stuyvesant High School (1941–1943); New York University (doctorate, 1943–1949);
Doctoral advisor	Kurt Otto Friedrichs;
Doctoral student	Alexandre Chorin (–1966); Ami Harten (–1974); Burton Wendroff (–1958); Charles Epstein (–1983); Steve Alpern (–1973); Mac Hyman (–1976); Lucien W. Neustadt (–1960); Michael Ghil (–1975); Gui-Qiang Chen (–1987); Reuben Hersh (–1962); Barbara Keyfitz (–1970); Jeffrey Rauch (–1971); George Logemann (–1965); Gregory Beylkin (–1982); Milton Halem (–1968); Charles David Levermore (–1982); Homer Franklin Walker (–1970); Donald Aubrey Quarles, Jr. (–1964); Stephanos Venakides (–1982); Shlomo Engelberg (–1994); …;
Occupation	mathematician; university teacher;
Employer	New York University; Manhattan Project (1945–1946); Manhattan Project (1950–1951);
Member of	French Academy of Sciences (foreign member, 1981–); Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; National Academy of Sciences (Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 1970–); Academy of Sciences of the USSR (foreign member, 1988–); Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Russian Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2009–); American Mathematical Society (Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012–); The Martians;
Position held	director (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, 1972–1980);
Field of work	partial differential equation; applied mathematics;
Spouse	Anneli Cahn Lax (1948–1999);
Relative	István Gazda (nephew);
Notable work	Lax equivalence theorem; Beurling–Lax theorem; Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem; Lions–Lax–Milgram theorem; Lax–Wendroff theorem; Lax–Wendroff method; Lax–Friedrichs method; lax natural transformation; lax functor;
Award received	Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1966, 1973); Chauvenet Prize (1974); Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics (1975); Honorary doctoral degree of the Pierre and Marie Curie University (1979); National Medal of Science (1986); Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1987); Leroy P. Steele Prize (1992); honorary doctor of the Peking University (1993); Abel Prize (2005); Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (2007); Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009); Great Immigrants Award (2009); Lomonosov Gold Medal (2013); Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013);
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	Q323331; ISNI: 0000000108849568; VIAF ID: 32058392; GND ID: 130442437; Library of Congress authority ID: n50038406; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12279914k; IdRef ID: 031618642; NDL Authority ID: 00447045; NL CR AUT ID: mzk2011622323; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 068451741; NUKAT ID: n00079270; NLP ID (old): a0000003214722; PLWABN ID: 9810556467805606; J9U ID: 987007593165405171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA00732315; SBN author ID: CFIV036537; Open Library ID: OL539780A; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 13415
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