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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn updated 2026-01-15 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003748b.htm person Simon Leon Melvyn FAA FRS AACR2 6 July 1945 Place of Birth Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Mathematician Leon Simon is a mathematician known for his significant contributions to the fields of geometric analysis and measure theory, second order partial differential equations, minimal hypersurfaces, and the mean curvature vector. He held appointments as Professor of Mathematics at both the University of Adelaide and the University of Sydney before becoming Professor at Stanford University in 1986. Simon has been a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science since 1983. 1967 1967 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)) University of Adelaide 1968 1971 Career position - Tutor in Mathematics, University of Adelaide 1971 1971 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Adelaide 1972 1973 Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics, Flinders University of South Australia 1973 1973 Career position - Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, California, U.S.A. 1973 1976 Career position - Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, California, U.S.A. 1976 1977 Career position - Visiting Professor, University of Adelaide 1977 1978 Career position - Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. 1978 1981 Career position - Professor of Mathematics, University of Melbourne 1981 1986 Career position - Professor of Mathematics, Australian National University 1983 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 1983 1983 Award - Fellow, Australian Mathematical Society 1986 Career position - Professor, Mathematics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California, U.S.A. 1994 Award - Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1994 1994 Award - Bôcher Memorial Prize, American Mathematical Society 2003 Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS) 2012 Award - Fellow, American Mathematical Society Bartnik, Robert Andrzej (1956 - 2022) Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )

Elected Fellow 1983

 Australian National University (1946 - )

Professor of Mathematics 1981 - 1986

 The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

Professor of Mathematics 1978 - 1981

 Australian Mathematical Society Medal (1981 - )

Awarded the Medal 1983

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 'Simon, Leon Melvyn', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Simon, Leon Melvyn Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Spacelike hypersurfaces with prescribed boundary values and mean curvature Bartnik, Robert and Leon, Simon Spacelike hypersurfaces with prescribed boundary values and mean curvature 1982 Communications in mathematical physics 87 131-52 Journal Article: Robert Bartnik Oliynyk, Todd, Chruściel, Piotr T., Huisken, Gerhard and Simon, Leon Robert Bartnik 2025 Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society 52 1 26-30 Resource: The Australian Mathematical Society Medal Australian Mathematical Society The Australian Mathematical Society Medal 2024 Journal Article: Leon Simon receives 1994 Bôcher Memorial Prize Anon Leon Simon receives 1994 Bôcher Memorial Prize 1994 Notices of the American Mathematical Society 41 2 99-100