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Model theorists

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Andrzej Ehrenfeucht

Andrzej Ehrenfeucht is a mathematician and computer scientist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé games in model theory.

Andrzej Mostowski

Andrzej Mostowski (1913–1975) was a Polish mathematician and logician of the Warsaw school, known for the Mostowski collapse and independence proofs about the axiom of choice.

Ehud Hrushovski

Ehud Hrushovski (born 1959 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli model theorist whose 1996 proof of the geometric Mordell–Lang conjecture turned logic into a tool of algebra and geometry.

Jerzy Łoś

Jerzy Łoś (1920–1998) was a Polish mathematician and logician who defined the ultraproduct construction and proved the fundamental Łoś theorem, with further results in algebra, probability, and economics.

Leopold Löwenheim

Leopold Löwenheim (1878–1957) was a German schoolteacher and mathematician in Berlin who proved in 1915 the first significant metalogical theorem, now known as the Löwenheim–Skolem theorem.

Michael D. Morley

Michael D. Morley, born Michael Darwin Morley (1930–2020), was an American mathematical logician at Cornell University who proved the 1965 categoricity theorem that opened modern model theory, introduced Morley rank, and won the 2003 Steele Prize.

Per Lindström

Per Lindström, known as Pelle Lindström, was a Swedish logician at the University of Gothenburg who proved Lindström's theorem in 1969 and introduced Lindström quantifiers in 1966.

Robert Lawson Vaught

Robert Lawson Vaught (1926–2002) was an American mathematician at UC Berkeley and a pioneer of model theory, a student of Alfred Tarski known for Vaught's conjecture.

Roland Fraïssé

Roland Fraïssé (1920–2008) was a French mathematician in logic and the theory of relations, known for the Fraïssé limit, introduced in his 1953 thesis and 1954 paper.

Saharon Shelah

Saharon Shelah, born in Jerusalem in 1945, is an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for stability theory, proper forcing, and pcf theory, and among the most prolific mathematicians in history.

Thoralf Skolem

Thoralf Skolem (1887–1963) was a Norwegian mathematician and logician regarded as a founding father of model theory, known for the Löwenheim–Skolem theorem and the Skolem paradox.