Shimshon Avraham Amitsur (born Kaplan; Hebrew: עמיצור שמשון; born August 26, 1921 – died September 5, 1994) was an Israeli mathematician. He is best known for his work in ring theory, an area of abstract algebra.
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Amitsur was born in Jerusalem and studied at the Hebrew University under the supervision of Jacob Levitzki. His studies were repeatedly interrupted, first by the World War II and then by the Israel's War of Independence. He received his M.Sc. degree in 1946, and his Ph.D. in 1950. Later, for his joint work with Levitzki he received the first Israel Prize in Exact Sciences. He worked at the Hebrew University until retirement in 1989.
Amitsur was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences, where he was the Head for Experimental Science Section. He was one of the founding editors of the Israel Journal of Mathematics, and the mathematical editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia. He received a number of awards, including the honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University in 1990. His students included Avinoam Mann, Amitai Regev, Eliyahu Rips and Aner Shalev.
Amitsur and Jacob Levitzki were each awarded the Israel Prize in exact sciences, in 1953, its inaugural year.[1]
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