Dan Laksov

Dan Laksov (10 July 1940 – 25 October 2013) was a Norwegian-Swedish mathematician and human rights activist. He was primarily active within the field of algebraic geometry.

Biography Laksov was born in Oslo in 1940, the same year that Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany. He was a son of Amalie Laksov (née Scheer) and Håkon Laksov (ne Laks), both born 1911; the family were Jews. The ancestors on both sides had immigrated from Russia via the Baltics to Norway in the late 19th century. He was a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences In 2008 he received an honorary degree at the University of Bergen.

In 1983, his mother Amalie Laksov created a foundation for human rights, Amalie Laksovs Minnefond. Dan Laksov was a board member, and member of the committee that awarded the Laksov Prize for human rights. Amalie Laksov died in 2008, aged 97, while Dan Laksov died in Stockholm in October 2013.