Michael Rapoport

Austrian mathematician (born 1948) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Rapoport (born 2 October 1948)[1] is an Austrian mathematician.

Born (1948-10-02) 2 October 1948 (age 77)
AwardsLeibniz Prize (1992)
Heinz Hopf Prize (2011)
Quick facts Born, Alma mater ...
Michael Rapoport
Rapoport in 2007
Born (1948-10-02) 2 October 1948 (age 77)
Alma materParis-Sud 11 University
Known forWorks on Shimura varieties and Langlands program
AwardsLeibniz Prize (1992)
Heinz Hopf Prize (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Bonn
Pierre Deligne
Doctoral students
Close

Career

Rapoport received his PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1976, under the supervision of Pierre Deligne.[2] He held a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bonn,[3] as well as a visiting appointment at the University of Maryland. In 1992, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize,[4] in 1999 he won the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize,[5] and he is the recipient of the 2011 Heinz Hopf Prize.[6] In 1994, he was an Invited Speaker (with talk Non-Archimedean period domains) at the ICM in Zürich.

Rapoport's students include Maria Heep-Altiner, Werner Baer, Peter Scholze, Eva Viehmann.[2]

Personal life

Michael Rapoport is the son of pediatrician Ingeborg Rapoport and biochemist Samuel Mitja Rapoport, and brother of biochemist Tom Rapoport.

Selected publications

References

Related Articles

Wikiwand AI