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John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 28 December 1903
- Died
- 8 February 1957
- Part of
- The Martians
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Washington, D.C.
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Neumann, von Neumann
- Father
- Max von Neumann
- Mother
- Margaret Neumann
- Field of work
- functional analysis, operator theory, mathematics, physics, game theory, cellular automaton, set theory, quantum physics, nuclear bomb, informatics
- Occupation
- mathematician, computer scientist, physicist, economist, university teacher, consultant, Manhattan Project
- Position held
- chairperson
- Citizenship
- Hungary, United States
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Religion
- Judaism, Christianity, Catholicism
- Awards
- Medal of Freedom, Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Enrico Fermi Award, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, Silliman Memorial Lectures, Medal for Merit, Albert Einstein Award, Financial Times Person of the Year, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Fellow of the Econometric Society
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- academic thesis
- The Axiomatization of Set Theory
- birth name
- Neumann János Lajos
- cause of death
- brain cancer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Lipót Fejér
- doctoral student
- Donald B. Gillies, Maurice Pryce, Israel Halperin, Friederich Ignaz Mautner, John Patterson Mayberry
- educated at
- Fasori Gimnázium, Frederick William University Berlin, ETH Zurich, Eötvös Loránd University, University of Göttingen
- employer
- Princeton University, Frederick William University Berlin, United States Atomic Energy Commission, University of Hamburg, Institute for Advanced Study, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, Ballistic Research Laboratory, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Erdős number
- 3
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, London Mathematical Society, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Econometric Society, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- margittai Neumann János Lajos
- nickname
- Good Time Johnny
- notable work
- von Neumann cellular automaton, Von Neumann neighborhood, von Neumann universal constructor, von Neumann architecture, von Neumann algebra, von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem, von Neumann regular ring, Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory, von Neumann universe, von Neumann conjecture, von Neumann entropy, Von Neumann stability analysis
- participant in
- Manhattan Project
- place of burial
- Princeton Cemetery
- related category
- Category:Things named after John von Neumann
- student of
- László Rátz, Gábor Szegő
- topic's main category
- Category:John von Neumann
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