Joseph Kohn

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University

Joseph Kohn was born in Prague, on May 18, 1932. He emigrated to Ecuador in 1939 and to the US in 1945.  There, he received his BS at MIT 1953,  and his Ph.D. at Princeton, in 1956.
He served as a Professor at Brandeis University 1958-1968 and at Princeton since 1968.
Professor Kohn’s research regards the Theory of Several Complex Variables, Partial Differential Equations, and related fields.
He has enjoyed the honor of being a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member United States National Academy of Sciences.  He has received the American Mathematical Society Steele and Bergmann prizes, and the Bolzano prize of the Czechoslovak Union of Mathematicians and Physicists.  He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bologna, and a title in the Brooklyn Technical High School Hall of Fame.

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Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics

The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality;  The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The... read more! »