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Alexander Holevo

Alexander Semenovich Holevo (Александр Семёнович Холево), born 1943 in Moscow, is a Russian mathematician and full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, one of the founders of quantum information theory.

Antti Kupiainen

Antti Kupiainen (born 1954) is a Finnish mathematical physicist, professor at the University of Helsinki, known for rigorous renormalization group methods and Liouville conformal field theory.

Ebenezer Cunningham

Ebenezer Cunningham (1881–1977) was a British mathematician at St John's College, Cambridge, who in 1909 co-discovered with Harry Bateman the conformal invariance of Maxwell's equations.

Herbert Spohn

Herbert Spohn (born 1946) is a German mathematical physicist, emeritus at TU Munich, known for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the first exact solution of the KPZ equation.

Roy Kerr

Roy Patrick Kerr, born 1934, is a New Zealand mathematician who in 1963 found the exact solution to Einstein's field equations describing the space-time outside a rotating black hole.

Tetsuji Miwa

Tetsuji Miwa (三輪 哲二) is a Japanese mathematician who took his PhD at Kyoto University in 1981 under Mikio Sato and is known for the Miwa transform, the Hirota–Miwa equation, and the Jimbo–Miwa–Ueno tau-function.

Tosio Katō

Tosio Katō (1917–1999) was a Japanese mathematician, the founding figure of the theory of Schrödinger operators, known for his 1951 proof of self-adjointness of atomic Hamiltonians.

Viacheslav Belavkin

Viacheslav Belavkin (Вячеслав Павлович Белавкин, 1946 to 2012) was a mathematician who founded quantum filtering theory, whose Belavkin equation underlies quantum feedback control, at Nottingham from 1996.

Vladimir Steklov (mathematician)

Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (Владимир Андреевич Стеклов) was a Russian mathematician and mathematical physicist, 1864 to 1926, who proved solvability of the Dirichlet and Neumann problems and founded the Steklov Mathematical Institute.

Willem Jacob van Stockum

Willem Jacob van Stockum was a Dutch mathematician whose 1936 solution of Einstein's equations, van Stockum dust, later proved to permit time travel to the past.