Jürgen Moser

Jürgen Kurt Moser was a German-American mathematician, born in 1928, honored for work spanning over four decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations. He spent 1953 at the Courant Institute of New York University as a Fulbright scholar, emigrated to the United States in 1955 and became a citizen in 1959. He became a professor at MIT and later at New York University, and in 1970 he declined the offer of a chair at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was a lifelong amateur astronomer and took up paragliding in 1988.