Laurent Schwartz

1915 - 2002

country of citizenship: France

languages spoken, written or signed: French, English

educated at: École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Janson-de-Sailly

occupation: mathematician, university teacher, entomologist

award received: Fields medal, Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award, Grand prix des sciences mathématiques, Prix de l'Etat, Concours général, Prix Francoeur, Cours Peccot

position held: president

Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (French: [ʃvaʁts]; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. For several years he taught at the École polytechnique. Source: Wikipedia (en)