Shimshon Amitsur
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Shimshon Avraham Amitsur (born Kaplan; Hebrew: שמשון עמיצור; August 26, 1921 – September 5, 1994) was an Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1953 Israel Prize in exact sciences. He is best known for his work in ring theory, the area of abstract algebra.
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[edit] Biography
Amitsur was born in Jerusalem and studied at the Hebrew University under the supervision of Jacob Levitsky. His studies were repeatedly interrupted, first by the World War II and then by the Israel's War of Independence. He received his M.Sc. degree in 1946, and his Ph.D. in 1950. Later, for his joint work with Levitzky he received the first Israel Prize in Exact Sciences. He worked at the Hebrew University until retirement in 1989.
Amitsur was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences, where he was the Head for Experimental Science Section. He was one of the founding editors of the Israel Journal of Mathematics, and the mathematical editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia. He received a number of awards, including the honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University in 1990. His students included Avinoam Mann, Amitai Regev, Eliyahu Rips and Aner Shalev.
[edit] See also
List of Israel Prize recipients
[edit] Further reading
- "Shimshon Avraham Amitsur (1921 — 1994)", by A. Mann, Israel Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 96 (December 1996), ix - xxvii.
