Pavel Winternitz

Pavel Winternitz
Pavel Winternitz
Born(1936-07-25)July 25, 1936
Prague, Czechoslovakia
DiedFebruary 13, 2021(2021-02-13) (aged 84)
Montreal, Canada
CitizenshipCanadian and Czech Republic
Alma materSaint Petersburg University, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Known forSymmetries in physics, super-integrable systems, symmetries of continuous and discrete systems
AwardsCAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Wigner medal
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical Physics
InstitutionsUniversité de Montreal
Thesis Lorentz group and relativistic symmetries in elementary particle theory  (1966)
Doctoral advisorJ. A. Smorodinsky
Doctoral studentsLuc Vinet
Websitewww.crm.umontreal.ca/~wintern/

Pavel Winternitz (1936–2021) was a Canadian Czech-born mathematical physicist. He completed undergraduate studies at Prague University and received a doctorate from Leningrad University (Ph.D. 1962) under the supervision of J. A. Smorodinsky. His research is on integrable systems and symmetries.

He was a member of the Mathematical Physics group at the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), a national research centre in mathematics at the Université de Montréal and Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de Montréal.

His work has had a strong impact in several domains of mathematical physics, and his publications are very widely cited.

In 2001, he was recipient of the CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics .[1]

In 2018, he was recipient of the Wigner medal.

He died on 13 February 2021.[2]

References

  1. ^ CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics – Previous Winners
  2. ^ Obituary in Montreal Gazette