Saharon Shelah

Saharon Shelah
Shelah in 2005
Born	(1945-07-03) July 3, 1945 (age 79) 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[1]

Saharon Shelah (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.