List of Fields medalists affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study

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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, 1966–67
Jesse Douglas United States 1934–35, 1938–39
1950 Atle Selberg Norway 1947–51, 1951–87
1954 Kunihiko Kodaira Japan 1949–52, 1956–61
Jean-Pierre Serre France 1955–64, 1967–68, 1970–73, 1978, 1983–84, 1999
1958 René Thom France 1956, 1961–62
1962 Lars Valter Hörmander Sweden 1960–61, 1971, 1977–78
John Willard Milnor United States 1966, 1970–90, 1999, 2002
1966 Michael Atiyah United Kingdom 1955–56, 1959, 1969–72, 1976, 1987
Paul J. Cohen United States 1959–61, 1967
Stephen Smale United States 1958–60, 1966–67
1970 Alan Baker United Kingdom 1970
Heisuke Hironaka Japan 1962–63
John G. Thompson United States 1978
1974 Enrico Bombieri Italy 1974, 1984–present
David B. Mumford United States 1962–63, 1981–82
1978 Pierre Deligne Belgium 1972–73, 1977, 1981, 1984–present
Grigori Margulis Russia 1991, 2006
Daniel G. Quillen United States 1969–70
1982 Alain Connes France 1978–79
William P. Thurston United States 1972–73, 1976, 1984–85
Shing-Tung Yau China 1971–72, 1979–84
1986 Simon K. Donaldson United Kingdom 1983–84
Gerd Faltings Germany 1988, 1992–93
Michael H. Freedman United States 1975–76, 1980–81
1990 Vladimir Drinfeld Russia 1990, 1997–98
Shigefumi Mori Japan 1981–82
Edward Witten United States 1984, 1987–present
1994 Jean Bourgain Belgium 1994–present
1998 Maxim Kontsevich Russia 1992–93, 2002
Curtis T. McMullen United States 1986–87
Andrew Wiles United Kingdom 1981–82, 1992, 1995–96, 1998–2004, 2007–11
2002 Vladimir Voevodsky Russia 1992–93, 1998–present
2006 Andrei Okounkov Russia 1996
2010 Elon Lindenstrauss Israel 2000–01, 2007
Ngô Bảo Châu Vietnam 2006, 2007–10
Stanislav Smirnov Russia 1998, 2003
Cédric Villani France 2009
2014 Manjul Bhargava United States 2001-02
Maryam Mirzakhani Iran 2015
Martin Hairer Austria 2014

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