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Also Known As International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics
Notable Honorees Alain Connes • Stephen Smale • Grigori Perelman • Enrico Bombieri • Stanislav Smirnov • Sir Michael Francis Atiyah • Alexandre Grothendieck • Jean-Pierre Serre • John Willard Milnor • Wendelin Werner • Jesse Douglas • Ngo Bao Chau • Klaus Friedrich Roth • Simon Donaldson • Maryam Mirzakhani • Andrei Okounkov • Sergei Novikov • Alan Baker • John Griggs Thompson • Paul Joseph Cohen • William Paul Thurston • Terence Tao • Laurent Lafforgue • Vladimir Voevodsky • Cédric Villani • Laurent Schwartz • Michael Freedman • René Frédéric Thom • Vaughan Jones • Pierre Deligne • Gerd Faltings • David Mumford • Pierre-Louis Lions • Hironaka Heisuke • Lars V. Hörmander • Edward Witten • Gregory Margulis • Efim Zelmanov • Jean Bourgain • Lars Valerian Ahlfors • Elon Lindenstrauss • Mori Shigefumi • Atle Selberg • Vladimir Drinfeld • Shing-Tung Yau • Maxim Kontsevich • Charles Fefferman • Jean-Christophe Yoccoz • Daniel Gray Quillen • Timothy Gowers • Curtis McMullen • Richard Ewen Borcherds

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