Shmuel Agmon

Shmuel Agmon (Hebrew: שמואל אגמון; born 2 February 1922) is an Israeli mathematician.

A member of the HaMahanot HaOlim youth movement, Agmon studied at the Gymnasia Rehavia and joined a hakhshara program at Kibbutz Na'an after graduating from high school.

He began his studies in mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1940, but enlisted in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army before graduating.

[1] After his discharge, he completed his undergraduate and master's degrees at the Hebrew University and went to France for further studies.

[4] He received the 2007 EMET Prize "for paving new paths in the study of partial-elliptical differential equations and their problematic language and for advancing the knowledge in the field, as well as his essential contribution to the development of the Spectral Theory and the Distribution Theory of Schrödinger Operators.