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Efim Zelmanov.
Biography
Efim Zelmanov attended Novosibirsk State University, obtaining his Master's degree in 1977. On being awarded this degree he was appointed to the staff at Novosibirsk State University and taught there while continuing with his own research.He received his Ph.D. from Novosibirsk State University in 1980 having had his research supervised by Shirshov and Bokut.
The thesis he presented for his Ph.D. was on nonassociative algebra.
In particular his work completely changed the whole of the subject of Jordan algebras by extending results from the classical theory of finite dimensional Jordan algebras to infinite dimensional Jordan algebras. Zelmanov described this work on Jordan algebras in his invited lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians at Warsaw in 1983.
In 1980 Zelmanov was appointed as a Junior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences at Novosibirsk. On the award of his doctorate (habilitation) in 1985, he was