Friedrich Hirzebruch#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 112 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Friedrich Hirzebruch passed away May 27, 2012.
Positions Held
- 1995 Retired Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
- 1980-1995 Director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
- 1969-1985 Chairman, Special Research Area "Theoretical Mathematics", Bonn University
- 1962-1964 Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bonn
- 1956 Full Professor of Mathematics, University of Bonn (1993: Emeritus)
- 1955-1956 Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- 1954-1955 Stipend State Northrhine Westphalia, University of Münster (1955: Habilitation)
- 1952-1954 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- 1950 Ph.D. (Dr. rer.nat.) Mathematics, University of Münster
Fields of Scholarship
- Algebraic Geometry, in particular Algebraic Surfaces and Resolution of Singularities
- Characteristic Classes
- Differential Topology
- Modular Forms
Honours and Awards
- Silver medal ETH Zürich (1950)
- Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Israel (1988)
- Lobachevskij-Prize of the Academy of Sciences USSR (1990)
- Order Pour le mérite for Sciences and Arts (1991)
- Medal of the City of Paris (1992)
- German great cross of merit (Großes Verdienstkreuz) with star (1993)
- Seki Prize of the Japanese Mathematical Society (Gold medal 1996)
- Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Stars (Japan 1996)
- Cothenius Gold Medal, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (1997)
- Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1997)
- Albert Einstein Medal, Albert Einstein Society, Bern (1999)
- Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1999)
- Krupp Science Prize (2000)
- Helmholtz Medal, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (2002)
- Georg Cantor Medal of the German Mathematical Society (2004)
