Michael Artin (Artinian)
Wolf Prize winner Michael Artin is a German-American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mathematics Department, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. Life and career Artin was born in Hamburg, Germany, and brought up in Indiana. His father was Emil Artin, preeminent algebraist of the 20th century of Armenian descent. Artin’s parents left Germany in 1937, because his […]
Michel Ter-Pogossian
Co-creator of the positron emission tomography (PET) Michel Matthew Ter-Pogossian was an American medical physicist. He was professor of radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine for over 30 years. A pioneer in nuclear medicine, he is best known for his research on the positron emission tomography (PET). He is considered one of its creators and often referred to as the « father of PET. » […]
