Michael Rapoport

Michael Rapoport (born 2 October 1948) is an Austrian mathematician. Rapoport received his Ph.D. from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1976, under the supervision of Pierre Deligne. He currently holds a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bonn, as well as a visiting appointment at the University of Maryland. In 1992 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, in 1999 he won the Gay-Lussac–Humboldt Prize, and he is the recipient of the 2011 Heinz Hopf Prize. In 1994 he was an Invited Speaker (with talk Non-Archimedean period domains) at the ICM in Zurich. Michael Rapoport is the son of Ingeborg Rapoport, a pediatrician, and Samuel Mitja Rapoport, and brother of Tom Rapoport, both renowned biochemists. His students include Maria Heep-Altiner, Werner Baer, Peter Scholze, Eva Viehmann.