| Pavel Winternitz | |
| Birth Date: | 25 July 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Death Place: | Montreal, Canada |
| Citizenship: | Canadian and Czech Republic |
| Fields: | Mathematical Physics |
| Workplaces: | Université de Montreal |
| Alma Mater: | Saint Petersburg University, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia |
| Doctoral Advisor: | J. A. Smorodinsky |
| Thesis Title: | Lorentz group and relativistic symmetries in elementary particle theory |
| Thesis Year: | 1966 |
| Doctoral Students: | Luc Vinet |
| Known For: | Symmetries in physics, super-integrable systems, symmetries of continuous and discrete systems |
| Awards: | CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Wigner medal |
Pavel Winternitz (1936–2021) was a Canadian Czech-born mathematical physicist. He completed undergraduate studies at Prague University and received a doctorate from Leningrad University (Ph.D. 1962) under the supervision of J. A. Smorodinsky. His research is on integrable systems and symmetries.
He was a member of the Mathematical Physics group at the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), a national research centre in mathematics at the Université de Montréal and Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de Montréal.
His work has had a strong impact in several domains of mathematical physics, and his publications are very widely cited.
In 2001, he was recipient of the CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics.[1]
In 2018, he was recipient of the Wigner medal.
He died on 13 February 2021.[2]