Person

Jacques Hadamard

1865 – 1963 · aged 98

French mathematician (1865–1963)

Born
8 Dec 1865 · Versailles
Died
17 Oct 1963 · Paris

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 113 years
  1. 8 Dec 1865BornBorn in Versailles
  2. 1883AwardConcours général
  3. 1892AwardGrand prix des sciences mathématiques
  4. 1898AwardPoncelet Prize
  5. 1903AwardPetit d'Ormoy, Carriere, Thebault Award
  6. 1906 – 1907RoleChairperson
  7. 1908AwardEstrade-Delcros award
  8. 1919AwardSilliman Memorial Lectures
  9. 1932AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  10. 1951AwardFeltrinelli Prize
  11. 1954AwardGrand Cross of the Legion of Honour
  12. 1956AwardCNRS Gold medal
  13. 1957AwardHonorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  14. 17 Oct 1963DiedDied in Paris

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1865 – 1963).

  1. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  2. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  3. 1898Spanish–American War
  4. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  5. 1914 – 1918World War I
  6. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  7. 1917Balfour Declaration
  8. 1917February Revolution
  9. 1917October Revolution
  10. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  11. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  12. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  13. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  14. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  16. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  17. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1938Munich Agreement
  19. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  20. 1939 – 1945World War II
  21. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  22. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  23. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  24. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  25. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  26. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  27. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  28. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  30. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  31. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  33. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  34. 1956Suez Crisis
  35. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  37. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis

Biography

Jacques Salomon Hadamard (French: [adamaʁ]; 8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963) was a French mathematician who made major contributions in complex analysis, number theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations.

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