Katalin Marton

Katalin Marton is a Hungarian mathematician born 1941 in Budapest. She obtained her PhD from Eotvos Lorand University in 1965 and worked at the Department of Numerical Mathematics, Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest, 1965–1973. Since 1973 she is at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her work is in information theory, measure concentration, and applications in probability theory. She won the Claude E. Shannon Award in 2013.

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Claude E. Shannon Award

1972–1989	1972 Claude E. Shannon 1973 1974 David S. Slepian 1975 1976 Robert M. Fano 1977 Peter Elias 1978 Mark Semenovich Pinsker 1979 Jacob Wolfowitz 1980 1981 W. Wesley Peterson 1982 Irving S. Reed 1983 Robert G. Gallager 1984 1985 Solomon W. Golomb 1986 William Lucas Root 1987 1988 James Massey 1989

1990–1999	1990 Thomas M. Cover 1991 Andrew Viterbi 1992 1993 Elwyn Berlekamp 1994 Aaron D. Wyner 1995 George David Forney 1996 Imre Csiszár 1997 Jacob Ziv 1998 Neil Sloane 1999 Tadao Kasami

2000–2009	2000 Thomas Kailath 2001 Jack Keil Wolf 2002 Toby Berger 2003 Lloyd R. Welch 2004 Robert McEliece 2005 Richard Blahut 2006 Rudolf Ahlswede 2007 Sergio Verdú 2008 Robert M. Gray 2009 Jorma Rissanen

2010–present	2010 Te Sun Han 2011 Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) 2012 Abbas El Gamal 2013 Katalin Marton 2014 János Körner 2015 Robert Calderbank 2016 Alexander Holevo

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 121461901

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