Pavel Winternitz

Pavel Winternitz (July 25, 1936 – February 13, 2021) was a Czech-born Canadian mathematical physicist. He completed undergraduate studies at Prague University and received a doctorate from Leningrad University (Ph.D. 1962) under the supervision of J. A. Smorodinsky. His research is on integrable systems and symmetries.

Pavel Winternitz
Born	(1936-07-25)July 25, 1936 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died	February 13, 2021(2021-02-13) (aged 84) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Citizenship	Canadian and Czech Republic
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg University, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Known for	Symmetries in physics, super-integrable systems, symmetries of continuous and discrete systems
Awards	CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Wigner medal
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical Physics
Institutions	Université de Montreal
Thesis	Lorentz group and relativistic symmetries in elementary particle theory  (1966)
Doctoral advisor	J. A. Smorodinsky
Doctoral students	Luc Vinet
Website	www.crm.umontreal.ca/~wintern/

Life and career

Winternitz was a member of the Mathematical Physics group at the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), a national research centre in mathematics at the Université de Montréal and Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de Montréal.

His work has had a strong impact in several domains of mathematical physics, and his publications are very widely cited.

In 2001, he was recipient of the CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics .^[1]

In 2018, he was recipient of the Wigner medal.

Winternitz died in Montreal on February 13, 2021, at the age of 84.^[2]