Leopoldo Nachbin (7 January 1922 – 3 April 1993) was a Jewish-Brazilian mathematician who dealt with topology, and harmonic analysis.Nachbin was born in Recife, and is best known for Nachbin's theorem.
He died, aged 71, in Rio de Janeiro.
Nachbin was a Ph.D.
student of Laurent Schwartz.Among his Ph.D.
students is Francisco Antônio Dória.He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) of 1962 in Stockholm.