Harry Kesten

Harry Kesten
Harry Kesten at Cornell University, 1970
Born	Harry Kesten (1931-11-19)November 19, 1931 Duisburg, Germany
Died	March 29, 2019(2019-03-29) (aged 87) Ithaca, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Cornell University
Known for	Van den Berg–Kesten inequality
Spouse	Doraline Kesten
Children	1
Awards	Guggenheim Fellow (1972) Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1963) Brouwer Medal (1981) Wald Memorial Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics[1] (1986) George Pólya Prize from the SIAM (1994) Steele Prize[2] for Lifetime Achievement from the AMS (2001) Member of National Academy of Sciences (1983) Correspondent Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] Docteur Honoris Causa, Université Paris-Sud 11 (2007) Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2013).[4]
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Probability Mathematical analysis Statistical mechanics Geometric group theory
Institutions	Cornell University Hebrew University Princeton University
Thesis	Symmetric Random Walks on Groups  (1958)
Doctoral advisor	Mark Kac[5]
Doctoral students	Maury Bramson[5]

Harry Kesten (November 19, 1931 – March 29, 2019) was a Jewish American mathematician best known for his work in probability, most notably on random walks on groups and graphs, random matrices, branching processes, and percolation theory.