Martin David Kruskal
American mathematician and physicist
Martin David Kruskal was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis. His... Wikipedia
Born: September 28, 1925, New York, NY
Died: December 26, 2006 (age 81 years), Princeton, NJ
Parents: Lillian Oppenheimer
Children: Clyde Kruskal
Awards: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1983), National Medal of Science (1993), Fellow of the Royal Society (1997), and more