FieldsMedal

A prize awarded to up to four MathematicanS (under forty) at each InternationalCongressOfMathematics since 1936 and regularly since 1948 at the iniative of the Canadian mathematican Fields.

• 1998 (Berlin): RichardBorcherds, WilliamGowers, MaximKontsevich, CurtisMcMullen
• 1994 (Zurich): EfimZelmanov, JacquesLouisLions, JeanBourgain, JeanChristopheYoccoz
• 1990 (Kyoto): VladimirDrinfeld, ...
• 1986 SimonDonaldson, GerdFaltings, MichaelFreedman
• 1983 (Varsaw): AlainConnes, WilliamThurston, ShingTungYau
• 1978 : PierreDeligne, CharlesFefferman, GrigoryMargulis, DanielQuillen
• 1974 : EnricoBombieri, DavidMumford
• 1970 (Nice): AlanBaker, HeisukeHironaka, SergeiNovikov, JohnGThompson
• 1966 : MichaelAtiyah, PaulJCohen, AlexanderGrothendieck, StephenSmale
• 1962 : LarsHormander, JohnMilnor
• 1958 : KlausRoth, RenéThom
• 1954 : KunihikoKodaira, JeanPierreSerre
• 1950 : LaurentSchwartz, AtleSelberg
• 1936 : LarsAhlfors, JesseDouglas

Famous contemporary mathematicians not having received this award:

ErdösPal (which could have shared Ahlfors medal for instance), VladimirArnold.

Don't forget the NevanlinnaPrize.