Fields Medal

This international prize for achievement in the field of mathematics is awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union at the International Congress of Mathematicians. The awards recognize both existing work as well as the promise of future achievement and are presented during the year of the congress to mathematicians under the age of 40.

Year

Winner(s)

1936	Lars Ahlfors (Finland); Jesse Douglas (United States)
1950	Atle Selberg (United States); Laurent Schwartz (France)
1954	Kunihiko Kodaira (United States); Jean-Pierre Serre (France)
1958	Klaus Roth (United Kingdom); René Thom (France)
1962	Lars Hörmander (Sweden); John Milnor (United States)
1966	Michael Atiyah (United Kingdom); Paul J. Cohen (United States); Alexander Grothendieck (France); Stephen Smale (United States)
1970	Alan Baker (United Kingdom); Heisuke Hironaka (United States); Sergei Novikov (USSR); John G. Thompson (United States)
1974	Enrico Bombieri (Italy); David Mumford (United States)
1978	Pierre Deligne (Belgium); Charles Fefferman (United States); G. A. Margulis (USSR); Daniel Quillen (United States)
1982	Alain Connes (France); William Thurston (United States); S. T. Yau (United States)
1986	Simon Donaldson (United Kingdom); Gerd Faltings (West Germany); Michael Freedman (United States)
1990	Vladimir Drinfeld (USSR); Vaughan F. R. Jones (United States); Shigefumi Mori (Japan); Edward Witten (United States)
1994	L. J. Bourgain (United States/France); P.-L. Lions (France); J.-C. Yoccoz (France); E. I. Zelmanov (United States)
1998	Richard E. Borcherds (United Kingdom); William T. Gowers (United Kingdom); Maxim Kontsevich (Russia); Curtis T. McMullen (United States)
2002	Laurent Lafforgue (France); Vladimir Voevodsky (United States)
2006	Andrei Okounkov (Russia); Grigory Perelman (Russia)*; Terence Tao (Australia); Wendelin Werner (France)
* Perelman declined the award.

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