List of Fields medalists affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study
This is a comprehensive list of Fields Medal winners affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey as current and former faculty members, visiting scholars, and other affiliates. Of the 56 individuals who have received the Fields Medal as of 2015, 41 are mathematicians who have been affiliated with the IAS as some point in their career.[1][2]
The Fields Medal is the world's most prestigious award in mathematics. It is presented every four years by the International Mathematical Union and is often referred to as the "Nobel prize of mathematics." It is generally shared by four different researchers. Members of the IAS have dominated the award since its inception in 1936 and in 2010 they took all four of them.[3]
| Fields Medal Winners | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Prize winner | Country | Years affiliated with IAS |
| 1936 | Lars V. Ahlfors | Finland | 1962, 1966–1967 |
| Jesse Douglas | United States | 1934–1935, 1938–1939 | |
| 1950 | Atle Selberg | Norway | 1947–1951, 1951–1987 |
| 1954 | Kunihiko Kodaira | Japan | 1949–1952, 1956–1961 |
| Jean-Pierre Serre | France | 1955–1964, 1967–1968, 1970–1973, 1978, 1983–1984, 1999 | |
| 1958 | René Thom | France | 1956, 1961–1962 |
| 1962 | Lars Valter Hörmander | Sweden | 1960–1961, 1971, 1977–1978 |
| John Willard Milnor | United States | 1966, 1970–1990, 1999, 2002 | |
| 1966 | Michael Atiyah | United Kingdom | 1955–1956, 1959, 1969–1972, 1976, 1987 |
| Paul J. Cohen | United States | 1959–1961, 1967 | |
| Stephen Smale | United States | 1958–60, 1966–1967 | |
| 1970 | Alan Baker | United Kingdom | 1970 |
| Heisuke Hironaka | Japan | 1962–1963 | |
| John G. Thompson | United States | 1978 | |
| 1974 | Enrico Bombieri | Italy | 1974, 1984–present |
| David B. Mumford | United States | 1962–1963, 1981–1982 | |
| 1978 | Pierre Deligne | Belgium | 1972–1973, 1977, 1981, 1984–present |
| Grigori Margulis | Russia | 1991, 2006 | |
| Daniel G. Quillen | United States | 1969–1970 | |
| 1982 | Alain Connes | France | 1978–1979 |
| William P. Thurston | United States | 1972–1973, 1976, 1984–1985 | |
| Shing-Tung Yau | China | 1971–1972, 1979–1984 | |
| 1986 | Simon K. Donaldson | United Kingdom | 1983–1984 |
| Gerd Faltings | Germany | 1988, 1992–1993 | |
| Michael H. Freedman | United States | 1975–1976, 1980–1981 | |
| 1990 | Vladimir Drinfeld | Russia | 1990, 1997–1998 |
| Shigefumi Mori | Japan | 1981–1982 | |
| Edward Witten | United States | 1984, 1987–present | |
| 1994 | Jean Bourgain | Belgium | 1994–present |
| 1998 | Maxim Kontsevich | Russia | 1992–1993, 2002 |
| Curtis T. McMullen | United States | 1986–1987 | |
| 2002 | Vladimir Voevodsky | Russia | 1992–1993, 1998–2017 |
| 2006 | Andrei Okounkov | Russia | 1996 |
| 2010 | Elon Lindenstrauss | Israel | 2000–2001, 2007 |
| Ngô Bảo Châu | Vietnam | 2006, 2007–2010 | |
| Stanislav Smirnov | Russia | 1998, 2003 | |
| Cédric Villani | France | 2009 | |
| 2014 | Manjul Bhargava | United States | 2001–2002 |
| Maryam Mirzakhani | Iran | 2015 | |
| Martin Hairer | Austria | 2014 | |
| 2018 | Akshay Venkatesh | Australia | 2005–2006, 2017–present |
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