John Tate (mathematician)

John Tate
Tate in 1993
Born	John Torrence Tate Jr. (1925-03-13)March 13, 1925 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	October 16, 2019(2019-10-16) (aged 94) Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University (BA) Princeton University (PhD)
Known for	Tate algebra Tate cohomology group Tate conjecture Tate curve Tate duality Tate module Tate pairing Tate twist Tate's algorithm Tate's isogeny theorem Tate's thesis Tate–Shafarevich group Artin–Tate lemma Barsotti–Tate group Birch–Tate conjecture Hodge-Tate module Honda–Tate theorem Koszul–Tate resolution Lubin–Tate formal group law Néron–Tate height Sato-Tate conjecture Serre-Tate theorem Rigid analytic geometry Rigid analytic space
Awards	Abel Prize (2010) Wolf Prize (2002/03) Steele Prize (1995) Cole Prize in Number Theory (1956)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Princeton University (1950–1953) Columbia University (1953–1954) Harvard University (1954–1990) University of Texas at Austin (1990–2009)
Thesis	Fourier Analysis in Number Fields and Hecke's Zeta Functions  (1950)
Doctoral advisor	Emil Artin
Doctoral students	List of notable students George Bergman Joe Buhler Bernard Dwork Benedict Gross Robert Kottwitz V. Kumar Murty Stephen Lichtenbaum Jonathan Lubin James S. Milne Carl Pomerance Kenneth Alan Ribet Michael Schlessinger Joseph H. Silverman Dinesh Thakur Jerrold B. Tunnell William C. Waterhouse

John Torrence Tate Jr. (March 13, 1925 – October 16, 2019) was an American mathematician distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry, and related areas in algebraic geometry. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2010.