Ronald Raphael Coifman (; born June 29, 1941) is a

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of Mathematics at

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. Coifman earned a doctorate from the

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in 1965, supervised by Jovan Karamata. Coifman is a member of the

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, the

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, and the

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. He is a recipient of the 1996

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Sustained Excellence Award, the 1996 Connecticut Science Medal, the 1999 Pioneer Award of the International Society for Industrial and Applied Science, and the 1999

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. Prior to teaching at Yale, Coifman taught at

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and the

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. In 2013, he co-founded ThetaRay, a

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and big data analytics company. In 2018, he received the

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for Mathematics. In 2024 he was awarded the

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.George David Birkhoff Prize 2024
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Jewish Israeli musicians Israeli mathematicians Yale University faculty National Medal of Science laureates 1941 births Israeli emigrants to the United States University of Chicago faculty Washington University in St. Louis faculty {{Israel-scientist-stub