Fields Medalists

year name birthplace primary research

1936 Ahlfors, Lars (Ahlfors, Lars Valerian) Helsinki, Finland Riemann surfaces

1936 Douglas, Jesse New York, New York, U.S. Plateau problem

1950 Schwartz, Laurent Paris, France functional analysis

1950 Selberg, Atle Langesund, Norway number theory

1954 Kodaira Kunihiko Tokyo, Japan algebraic geometry

1954 Serre, Jean-Pierre Bages, France algebraic topology

1958 Roth, Klaus (Roth, Klaus Friedrich) Breslau, Germany number theory

1958 Thom, René (Thom, René Frédéric) Montbéliard, France topology

1962 Hörmander, Lars (Hörmander, Lars V.) Mjällby, Sweden partial differential equations

1962 Milnor, John (Milnor, John Willard) Orange, New Jersey, U.S. differential topology

1966 Atiyah, Michael (Atiyah, Sir Michael Francis) London, England topology

1966 Cohen, Paul (Cohen, Paul Joseph) Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S. set theory

1966 Grothendieck, Alexandre Berlin, Germany algebraic geometry

1966 Smale, Stephen Flint, Michigan, U.S. topology

1970 Baker, Alan London, England number theory

1970 Hironaka Heisuke Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan algebraic geometry

1970 Novikov, Sergey (Novikov, Sergey Petrovich) Gorky, Russia, U.S.S.R. topology

1970 Thompson, John (Thompson, John Griggs) Ottawa, Kansas, U.S. group theory

1974 Bombieri, Enrico Milan, Italy number theory

1974 Mumford, David (Mumford, David Bryant) Worth, Sussex, England algebraic geometry

1978 Deligne, Pierre (Deligne, Pierre René) Brussels, Belgium algebraic geometry

1978 Fefferman, Charles (Fefferman, Charles Louis) Washington, D.C., U.S. classical analysis

1978 Margulis, Gregori (Margulis, Gregori Aleksandrovich) Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Lie groups

1978 Quillen, Daniel (Quillen, Daniel Gray) Orange, New Jersey, U.S. algebraic K-theory

1983 Connes, Alain Darguignan, France operator theory

1983 Thurston, William (Thurston, William Paul) Washington, D.C., U.S. topology

1983 Yau, Shing-Tung Shantou, China differential geometry

1986 Donaldson, Simon (Donaldson, Simon Kirwan) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England topology

1986 Faltings, Gerd Gelsenkirchen, West Germany Mordell conjecture

1986 Freedman, Michael (Freedman, Michael Hartley) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Poincaré conjecture

1990 Drinfeld, Vladimir (Drinfeld, Vladimir Gershonovich) Kharkov, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. algebraic geometry

1990 Jones, Vaughan Gisborne, New Zealand knot theory

1990 Mori Shigefumi Nagoya, Japan algebraic geometry

1990 Witten, Edward Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. superstring theory

1994 Bourgain, Jean Ostend, Belgium analysis

1994 Lions, Pierre-Louis Grasse, France partial differential equations

1994 Yoccoz, Jean-Christophe Paris, France dynamical systems

1994 Zelmanov, Efim (Zelmanov, Efim Isaakovich) Khabarovsk, Russia, U.S.S.R. group theory

1998 Borcherds, Richard (Borcherds, Richard Ewen) Cape Town, South Africa mathematical physics

1998 Gowers, William (Gowers, William Timothy) Marlborough, Wiltshire, England functional analysis

1998 Kontsevich, Maxim Khimki, Russia, U.S.S.R. mathematical physics

1998 McMullen, Curtis Berkeley, California, U.S. chaos theory

2002 Lafforgue, Laurent Antony, France number theory

2002 Voevodsky, Vladimir Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. algebraic geometry

2006 Okounkov, Andrei Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. mathematical physics

2006 Perelman, Grigori U.S.S.R. geometry

2006 Tao, Terrence Adelaide, Australia partial differential equations

2006 Werner, Wendelin Cologne, Germany geometry