Pavel Winternitz

Pavel Winternitz was a Czech-born Canadian mathematical physicist. He completed undergraduate studies at Prague University
and received a doctorate from Leningrad University under the supervision of J. A. Smorodinsky.
His research is on integrable systems and symmetries.

Life and career

Winternitz was a member of the Mathematical Physics group at the Centre de recherches mathématiques, 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
In 2018, he was recipient of the Wigner medal.
Winternitz died in Montreal on February 13, 2021, at the age of 84.