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Jacob Levitzki

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Nationality
  
Israeli

Role
  
Mathematician

Doctoral advisor
  
Emmy Noether

Name
  
Jacob Levitzki

Fields
  
Mathematics


Institutions
  
Hebrew University

Died
  
1956, Jerusalem, Israel

Children
  
Alexander Levitzki

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Born
  
17 August 1904 Sevastopol, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) (
1904-08-17
)

Alma mater
  
University of Gottingen

Similar People
  
Shimshon Amitsur, Alexander Levitzki, Emmy Noether

Doctoral students
  
Shimshon Amitsur

Education
  
University of Gottingen

Jacob Levitzki, also known as Yaakov Levitsky (Hebrew: יעקב לויצקי‎) (17 August 1904 - 25 February 1956) was an Israeli mathematician.

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Biography

Levitzki was born in 1904 in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, and emigrated to then Ottoman-ruled Palestine in 1912. After completing his studies at the Herzliya Gymnasia, he travelled to Germany and, in 1929, obtained a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Göttingen. In 1931, after two years at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, Levitzki returned to Palestine to join the faculty at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Awards

Levitzki together with Shimshon Amitsur, who had been one of his students at the Hebrew University, were each awarded the Israel Prize in exact sciences in 1953, the inaugural year of the prize, for their work on the laws of noncommutative rings.

Levitzki's son Alexander Levitzki, a recipient of the Israel Prize in 1990, in life sciences, established the Levitzki Prize in the name of his parents, Jacob and Charlotte, for Israeli research in the field of algebra.

References

Jacob Levitzki Wikipedia