[1] Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ Wife: Zorya Yakovlevna Shapiro (m. 1942, div.)
Son: Sergei Gelfand
Son: Vladimir Gelfand
Son: Aleksandr Gelfand (d., leukemia)
Wife: Tatiana V. Alekseyevskaya (m. 1979)
Daughter: Tatiana I. Gelfand
University: PhD Mathematics, Moscow State University (1935)
University: DSc Mathematics, Moscow State University (1938)
Teacher: Evening Institute of Chemical Technology
Professor: Moscow State University
Professor: Visiting Professor, Harvard University
Professor: Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor: Rutgers University (1990-2009)
Accademia dei Lincei (1988)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1964)
American Mathematical Society Honorary Member
European Academy of Sciences (2004)
French Academy of Sciences (1976)
Imperial Academie of Sciences of Japan (1989)
London Mathematical Society Honorary Member
Moscow Mathematical Society (1935)
National Academy of Sciences (1970)
New York Academy of Sciences Lifetime Member (1999)
Royal Irish Academy (1970)
Royal Society (1977)
Royal Swedish Academy (1974)
Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member (1953), Member (1984)
Kyoto Prize (1989)
MacArthur Fellowship (1994)
Order of Lenin three times
Wigner Medal (1979)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1978)
Expelled from School High School
Appendectomy Odessa, Ukraine (age 15)
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Appendicitis, Former Smoker, Vegetarian
Official Website:
http://www.israelmgelfand.com/
