Scientists. He was a co-author of a letter which publicized the case of the scientist Vladimir Samuilovich Kislik and a letter which publicized the case of the applied mathematician Yosif Begun. Awards and honors 1950 — Chauvenet Prize for 1947 expository article 1959 – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1965 – member of the National Academy of Sciences 1968 – Chauvenet Prize (and 1967 Lester R. Ford Award) for 1966 expository article 1969 – member of the American Philosophical Society 1971 – Solvay Lecturer at Brussels 1980 – Fermi Lecturer at the Scuola Normale, Pisa Books Mark Kac and Stanislaw Ulam: Mathematics and Logic: Retrospect and Prospects, Praeger, New York (1968) 1992 Dover paperback reprint. Mark Kac, Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis and Number Theory, Carus Mathematical Monographs, Mathematical Association of America, 1959. Mark Kac, Probability and related topics in the physical sciences. 1959 (with contributions by Uhlenbeck on the Boltzmann equation, Hibbs on quantum mechanics, and van der Pol on finite difference analogues of the wave and potential equations, Boulder Seminar 1957). Mark Kac, Enigmas of Chance: An Autobiography, Harper and Row, New York, 1985. Sloan Foundation Series. Published posthumously with a memoriam note by Gian-Carlo Rota. References External links National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir 1914 births 1984 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians Cornell University faculty Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Polish emigrants to the United States Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Probability theorists Lwów School of Mathematics American people of Polish-Jewish descent University of Southern California faculty People with acquired American citizenship People from Kremenets Members of the American Philosophical Society