This is a comprehensive list of Cole Prize winners affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey as current and former faculty members, visiting scholars, and other affiliates. Of the fifty-six mathematicians who have received the Cole Prize as of 2016, thirty-nine have been affiliated with the IAS at some point in their career. [1]
The Cole Prize is one of two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society. [2] [3]
Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra | ||
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Year | Prize winner | Years affiliated with IAS |
1939 | Abraham Adrian Albert | 1933–1934 |
1944 | Oscar Zariski | 1934–1935, 1960 |
1949 | Richard Brauer | 1934–1935, 1942, 1969 |
1954 | Harish-Chandra | 1947–1949, 1955–1956, 1961–1962 |
1960 | Serge Lang | 1952–1953, 1975 |
1965 | Walter Feit | 1958–1959 |
1965 | John G. Thompson | 1978 |
1970 | John R. Stallings | 1961–1962, 1971–1972 |
1975 | Hyman Bass | 1965, 1966 |
1975 | Daniel G. Quillen | 1969–1970 |
1980 | Michael Aschbacher | 1978–1979 |
1985 | George Lusztig | 1969–1971, 1988, 1998–1999 |
1995 | Michel Raynaud | 1981 |
2000 | Andrei Suslin | 2004–2005 |
2003 | Hiraku Nakajima | 1998–1999, 2007–2008 |
2005 | Peter Sarnak | 1999–2000, 2002, 2005–current |
2006 | János Kollár | 1986, 2014–2015 |
Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory | ||
Year | Prize winner | Years affiliated with IAS |
1941 | Claude Chevalley | 1938–1939 |
1951 | Paul Erdős | 1938–1940 |
1956 | John T. Tate | 1959–1960 |
1962 | Kenkichi Iwasawa | 1950–1952, 1957–1958, 1966–1967, 1971, 1979, 1985 |
1962 | Bernard M. Dwork | 1961–1962, 1983–1984 |
1967 | Simon B. Kochen | 1966–1967, 1978–1979 |
1972 | Wolfgang M. Schmidt | 1970–1971, 1985–1986 |
1977 | Goro Shimura | 1958–1959, 1967–1968, 1970–1971, 1974–1975, 1979, 1983 |
1982 | Robert P. Langlands | 1962–1963, 1972–current |
1982 | Barry Mazur | 1958–1959, 1962, 1983 |
1987 | Dorian M. Goldfeld | 1973–1974, 1979 |
1992 | Karl Rubin | 1983–1984, 1995–1996 |
1992 | Paul Vojta | 1989–1990, 1996–1997 |
1997 | Andrew J. Wiles | 1981, 1992, 1995–2004, 2007–2011 |
2002 | Henryk Iwaniec | 1983–1986 |
2002 | Richard Taylor | 2010–current |
2008 | Manjul Bharğava | 2001–2002 |
2011 | Chandrashekhar Khare | 2010–2011 |
2014 | Yitang Zhang | 2014 |
2014 | Daniel Goldston | 1982–2083, 1990 |
2014 | János Pintz | 1990–2091, 2009 |
2014 | Cem Y. Yildirim | 2009 |
2020 | James Maynard | 2017 |
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