Fields Medal

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The Fields Medal

The "Nobel Prize" for Mathematics is awarded to mathematicians under 40. Its purpose is to give recognition and support to younger mathematical researchers who have made major contributions.

List of recipients

2018

Caucher Birkar

Alessio Figalli

Peter Scholze

Akshay Venkatesh

2014

Artur Avila

Manjul Bhargava

Martin Hairer

Maryam Mirzakhani

2010

Elon Lindenstrauss

Ngô Bào Châu

Stanislav Smirnov

Cédric Villani

2006

Andrei OKOUNKOV

Grigori PERELMAN (declined)

Terence TAO

Wendelin WERNER

2002

Laurent LAFFORGUE

Vladimir VOEVODSKY

1998

Richard E. BORCHERDS

W. Timothy GOWERS

Maxim KONTSEVICH

Curtis T. MCMULLEN

A silver plaque was offered to Andrew J. WILES as a special tribute from IMU

1994

Jean BOURGAIN

Pierre-Louis LIONS

Jean-Christophe YOCCOZ

Efim ZELMANOV

1990

Vladimir DRINFELD

Vaughan F.R. JONES

Shigefumi MORI

Edward WITTEN

1986

Simon K. DONALDSON

Gerd FALTINGS

Michael H. FREEDMAN

1982

Alain CONNES

William P. THURSTON

Shing-Tung YAU

1978

Pierre René DELIGNE

Charles Louis FEFFERMAN

Gregori Alexandrovitch MARGULIS

Daniel G. QUILLEN

1974

Enrico BOMBIERI

David Bryant MUMFORD

1970

Alan BAKER

Heisuke HIRONAKA

Serge NOVIKOV

John Griggs THOMPSON

1966

Michael Francis ATIYAH

Paul Joseph COHEN

Alexander GROTHENDIECK

Stephen SMALE

1962

Lars HÖRMANDER

John Willard MILNOR

1958

Klaus Friedrich ROTH

René THOM

1954

Kunihiko KODAIRA

Jean-Pierre SERRE

1950

Laurent SCHWARTZ

Atle SELBERG

1936

Lars Valerian AHLFORS

Jesse DOUGLAS

Sources

• http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/fields/details/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal