Martin David Kruskal

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American mathematician American physicist human mathematician physicist

Martin David Kruskal was an American mathematician and physicist renowned for his pioneering work in soliton theory, nonlinear waves, and general relativity.

Aliases (1)

Martin D. Kruskal ×1

Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American mathematician → American physicist → human → mathematician → physicist →
academicDegree	Doctor of Philosophy →
awardReceived	Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics → Maxwell Prize → National Medal of Science →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1925-09-28 →
dateOfDeath	2006-12-26 →
doctoralAdvisor	Richard Courant →
educatedAt	New York University → University of Chicago →
employer	Bell Telephone Laboratories → Princeton University → Rutgers University →
familyName	Kruskal →
fieldOfWork	applied mathematics → general relativity → mathematics → nonlinear science → nonlinear waves → physics → plasma physics → soliton theory →
givenName	Martin →
knownFor	Kruskal–Szekeres extension of the Schwarzschild solution → contributions to general relativity → development of inverse scattering transform → pioneering work in soliton theory → pioneering work on nonlinear waves →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	National Academy of Sciences →
middleName	David →
notableStudent	Clifford S. Gardner → Norman Zabusky → Robert Miura →
notableWork	Korteweg–De Vries equation → Kruskal–Shafranov instability criterion → Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates → Kruskal–Wallis test → Painlevé–Kruskal theorem → inverse scattering transform → theory of solitons →
placeOfBirth	New York → New York City → United States of America →
placeOfDeath	New Jersey → Princeton → United States of America →
positionHeld	professor → research scientist →
sexOrGender	male →
sibling	Joseph Kruskal → William Kruskal →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Norman J. Zabusky ("Martin D. Kruskal") →	coAuthor
Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates →	introducedBy
Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates →	namedAfter