Thomas Zink

Thomas Zink
Born	(1949-04-14) 14 April 1949 Berlin
Nationality	German
Known for	Works on Shimura varieties and p-divisible formal groups
Awards	Leibniz Prize (1992)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Bielefeld University

Thomas Zink (born 14 April 1949 in Berlin) is a German mathematician. He currently holds a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at Bielefeld University. He has been doing research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, at the University of Toronto and at the University of Bonn among others.

In 1992, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft joint with Christopher Deninger (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität of Münster), Michael Rapoport (University of Wuppertal) and Peter Schneider (University of Cologne). The four researchers succeeded to apply modern methods of algebraic geometry to the solution of diophantine equations. Furthermore, he is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Halle an der Saale).

External links

• Homepage of Thomas Zink
• List of all Leibniz price laureates (DFG) (in German) (PDF; 7,52 MB)