Saharon Shelah

Saharon Shelah
Saharon Shelah
שַׂהֲרֹן שֶׁלַח
	Shelah in 2005
Born	July 3, 1945; Jerusalem, British Mandate for Palestine (now Israel)
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University (B.Sc); Hebrew University (M.Sc., Ph.D.);
Known for	Proper Forcing, PCF theory, Sauer–Shelah lemma, Shelah cardinal
Awards	Erdős Prize (1977); Rothschild Prize (1982); Karp Prize (1983); George Pólya Prize (1992); Gödel Lecture (1996); Bolyai Prize (2000); Wolf Prize (2001); Israel Prize (1998); EMET Prize (2011); Leroy P. Steele Prize (2013); Rolf Schock Prize (2018);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical logic, model theory, set theory
Institutions	Hebrew University, Rutgers University
Doctoral advisor	Michael O. Rabin
Doctoral students	Rami Grossberg; Shai Ben-David

Saharon Shelah (Hebrew: שַׂהֲרֹן שֶׁלַח; Śahăron Šelaḥ, Hebrew pronunciation: [sähäʁo̞n ʃe̞läχ]; born July 3, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey.