Marcel Berger

Marcel Berger
Marcel Berger in 1968 (photo from MFO)
Born	Marcel Yves Marie Joseph Berger (1927-04-14)14 April 1927 Paris, France
Died	15 October 2016(2016-10-15) (aged 89) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École normale supérieure (Paris) University of Paris
Known for	Berger–Kazdan comparison theorem Berger classification Berger's sphere Berger's inequality for Einstein manifolds
Awards	Leconte Prize (1978)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Strasbourg Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis Paris Diderot University Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Thesis	Sur des groupes d'holonomies des variétés riemanniennes et des variétés affinés sans torsion (1954)
Doctoral advisor	André Lichnerowicz
Doctoral students	Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Yves Colin de Verdière Sylvestre Gallot Dominique Hulin François Labourie Pierre Pansu

Marcel Berger (14 April 1927 – 15 October 2016) was a French mathematician, doyen of French differential geometry, and a former director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), France.