Michael Rapoport

Michael Rapoport, born on 2 October 1948, is an Austrian mathematician whose field is arithmetic algebraic geometry, where the geometry of solutions to polynomial equations meets number theory. He took his doctorate at Paris-Sud 11 University in 1976 under the supervision of Pierre Deligne, and later held a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bonn, with a visiting appointment at the University of Maryland. His honours include the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of 1992, the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize of 1999 and the Heinz Hopf Prize of 2011, and in 1994 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich, where his talk concerned non-Archimedean period domains. His doctoral students include Peter Scholze, Eva Viehmann and Lisa Sauermann. He is the son of the pediatrician Ingeborg Rapoport and the biochemist Samuel Mitja Rapoport, and the brother of the biochemist Tom Rapoport.