2026 Harry Kesten: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	68	310	171	216	20046

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Mathematics

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Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2001 - Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
1994 - George Pólya Prize
1986 - Wald Memorial Lecturer
1983 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1981 - Brouwer Medal
1972 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1963 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
1941 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Harry Kesten was affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research mainly focused on mathematics, with particular attention to statistics and probability as well as mathematical physics and condensed matter physics. The scientist contributed to fields involving stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, Markov chains and Monte Carlo methods, theoretical and computational physics, and random matrices and applications.

During their career, Harry Kesten authored several notable papers. Recent publications include:

Oriented percolation in a random environment, 2022, Electronic Journal of Probability
On the number of maximal paths in directed last-passage percolation, 2020, The Annals of Probability

Their work appeared in frequent publication venues such as the Electronic Journal of Probability and The Annals of Probability.

Harry Kesten collaborated with various co-authors throughout their research career. Frequent collaborators included:

Vladas Sidoravičius
Maria Eulália Vares
Hugo Duminil-Copin
Fëdor Nazarov
Yuval Peres

Over the years, Kesten received multiple recognitions in the scientific community. Awards included:

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2001)
George Pólya Prize (1994)
Wald Memorial Lecturer (1986)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1983)
Brouwer Medal (1981)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1972)
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1963)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1941)

Best Publications

Products of Random Matrices

H. Furstenberg;H. Kesten

1595
Citations
Random difference equations and Renewal theory for products of random matrices

Harry Kesten

1367
Citations
Percolation theory for mathematicians

Harry Kesten

1139
Citations
Symmetric random walks on groups

Harry Kesten

1036
Citations
The critical probability of bond percolation on the square lattice equals 1/2

Harry Kesten

908
Citations
A limit law for random walk in a random environment

H. Kesten;M. V. Kozlov;F. Spitzer

672
Citations
Accelerated Stochastic Approximation

Harry Kesten

581
Citations
Aspects of first passage percolation

Harry Kesten

466
Citations
Inequalities with applications to percolation and reliability

van den Rob Berg;H. Kesten

463
Citations
A Limit Theorem for Multidimensional Galton-Watson Processes

H. Kesten;B. P. Stigum

450
Citations
A limit theorem related to a new class of self similar processes

H. Kesten;F. Spitzer

392
Citations
Full Banach Mean Values on Countable groups.

Harry Kesten

387
Citations
On the Number of Self‐Avoiding Walks

Harry Kesten

387
Citations
Scaling relations for $2$D-percolation

Harry Kesten

378
Citations
On the Speed of Convergence in First-Passage Percolation

Harry Kesten

327
Citations
Uniqueness of the infinite cluster and continuity of connectivity functions for short and long range percolation

M. Aizenman;H. Kesten;C. M. Newman

292
Citations
Subdiffusive behavior of random walk on a random cluster

Harry Kesten

288
Citations
Quadratic transformations: a model for population growth. II

Harry Kesten

257
Citations
The limit distribution of Sinai's random walk in random environment

Harry Kesten

226
Citations
Hitting probabilities of single points for processes with stationary independent increments

Harry Kesten

214
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Itai Benjamini Weizmann Institute of Science

Geoffrey Grimmett University of Cambridge

Rick Durrett Duke University

Christian Borgs University of California, Berkeley

Jennifer Chayes University of California, Berkeley

Joel Spencer Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Oded Schramm Microsoft (United States)

Gregory F. Lawler University of Chicago

Amir Dembo Stanford University

George Papanicolaou Stanford University

External Links

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