Sergiu Klainerman, a graduate of the University of Bucharest, won the Bocher Prize in 1999.
After attending the Petru Groza High School, he studied mathematics at the University of Bucharest from 1969 to 1974. Klainerman was awarded the Bocher Memorial Prize by the American Mathematical Society in 1999 "for his contributions to nonlinear hyperbolic equations". 
