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Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
In 2014 he was awarded the Abel Prize for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics.
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Both of Yakov Grigorevich Sinai's parents, Grigory Sinai and Nadezda Veniaminovna Kagan, were microbiologists with research careers.Yakov sinai biography template
Yakov's mother Nadezda died when he was three years old having been infected by viral encephalitis while working in her own laboratory on making a vaccine. The family had strong mathematical connections since Yakov Grigorevich's grandfather (Nadezda Kagan's father) was Benjamin Fedorovich Kagan, the Head of the Department of Differential Geometry at Moscow State University where he founded an important School of Differential Geometry.
It is also worth recording that the family was Jewish, and Kagan had a long struggle against anti-Se