Israeli Technion graduate Maria Chudnovsky has just been awarded a $500,000 “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. As professor at Columbia University she has succeeded in proving “graph classification theory” and now works on real-world applications of the theory.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-raised-and-educated-mathematician-among-genius-grant-recipients/
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