Which man received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997, the Fields Medal in 1998, Vladimir Levenshtein or Maxim Kontsevich?
Vladimir Levenshtein Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein (Russian: Влади́мир Ио́сифович Левенште́йн ; ] ; born 1935) is a Russian scientist who has done research in information theory, error-correcting codes, and combinatorial design. Among other contributions, he is known for the Levenshtein distance and a Levenshtein algorithm, which he developed in 1965.
Nikolay Kochetkov Nikolay Konstantinovich Kochetkov (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Кочетко́в ; May 18, 1915 in Moscow – 2005) was a Soviet chemist and academician (1979). Awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1994.