Michael Rapoport (born 2 October 1948) is an Austrian mathematician.

Career

Rapoport received his PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1976, under the supervision of

Pierre Deligne Pierre René, Viscount Deligne (; born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoor ...

. He held a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

, as well as a visiting appointment at the University of Maryland. In 1992, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize,List of Leibniz Prize winners from 1986 to 2022
DFG in 1999 he won the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize, and he is the recipient of the 2011 Heinz Hopf Prize. In 1994, he was an Invited Speaker (with talk ''Non-Archimedean period domains'') at the ICM in Zürich. Rapoport's students include Maria Heep-Altiner, Werner Baer, Peter Scholze, Eva Viehmann.

Personal life

Michael Rapoport is the son of pediatrician Ingeborg Rapoport and biochemist Samuel Mitja Rapoport, and brother of biochemist Tom Rapoport.

Selected publications

* * * * * * with M. Richartz
''On the classification and specialization of F-isocrystals with additional structure''.
In: ''Composito Mathematica'' 103(1996), no. 2, pp. 153–182. * * *

References

External links

Homepage in Bonn

Oberwolfach Photo Collection, Details for Michael Rapoport
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rapoport, Michael 1948 births Living people Arithmetic geometers 20th-century German mathematicians Paris-Sud University alumni Academic staff of the University of Bonn