Pavel Winternitz
Pavel Winternitz | |
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| Born |
July 25, 1936 |
| Died | February 13, 2021 (aged 84) |
| Citizenship | Canadian and Czech Republic |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg University, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia |
| Known for | Symmetries in physics, super-integrable systems, symmetries of continuous and discrete systems |
| Awards | CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Wigner medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical Physics |
| Institutions | Université de Montreal |
| Thesis | Lorentz group and relativistic symmetries in elementary particle theory (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. A. Smorodinsky |
| Doctoral students | Luc Vinet |
| Website | www |
Pavel Winternitz (1936–2021) was a Canadian Czech-born mathematical physicist. He did his undergraduate studies at Prague University and his doctorate at 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 .
In 2018, he was recipient of the Wigner medal.
He died on 13 February 2021.