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Spectral and scattering theorists

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András Vasy

András Vasy is a Hungarian-born mathematician at Stanford known for his 2013 microlocal framework for Laplacian resolvents and the 2018 proof of Kerr-de Sitter black hole stability.

Aurel Wintner

Aurel Wintner (1903–1958) was a Hungarian-born mathematician at Johns Hopkins University who rigorously proved the convergence of Hill's lunar theory and lent his name to several theorems.

Boris Levitan

Boris Moiseevich Levitan (Левитан Борис Моисеевич; 1914–2004) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, co-creator of the Gelfand–Levitan method and winner of the 1962 Lenin Prize.

Clifford S. Gardner

Clifford S. Gardner was an American mathematician whose 1967 GGKM paper introduced the inverse scattering transform, founding the modern theory of solitons and integrable systems.

Harry Dym

Harry Dym (1938–2024) was a mathematician at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot who worked on interpolation theory and is known for the Harry Dym equation.

Ralph S. Phillips

Ralph Saul Phillips (1913–1998) was an American mathematician at Stanford who worked in functional analysis and scattering theory and co-developed Lax–Phillips scattering theory with Peter Lax.

Richard Melrose

Richard Melrose is a mathematician and Simons Professor at MIT, known for the b-calculus and scattering calculus for partial differential equations on manifolds with boundary.

Vladimir Marchenko

Vladimir Marchenko, born Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Marchenko (1922–2026), was a Ukrainian mathematician whose Marchenko equation became a keystone of the inverse scattering transform for soliton equations.

Yves Colin de Verdière

Yves Colin de Verdière is a French mathematician, professor emeritus at the Institut Fourier in Grenoble, known for the graph invariant μ(G), introduced in 1990.