List of Wolf Prize winners affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study

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This is a comprehensive list of Wolf Prize winners affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey as current and former faculty members, visiting scholars, and other affiliates. [1] [2] These winners are all in mathematics and physics. No Institute scholar has as of 2015 ever won a Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Medicine, Arts, or Agriculture.

Wolf Prize in Mathematics
YearPrize winnerCountryYears affiliated with IAS
1978 Carl Ludwig Siegel West Germany1935, 1940-1951, 1960
1979 Jean Leray France1950–1960
1979 André Weil France1937, 1958-1998
1980 Henri Cartan France1966-1967
1982 Hassler Whitney United States1952-1989
1983/4 Shiing-Shen Chern United States1943-1945, 1949, 1954-1955, 1964
1983/4 Paul Erdős Hungary1938-1940
1984/5 Kunihiko Kodaira Japan1949-1952, 1956-1961
1986 Atle Selberg Norway1947-2007
1987 Kiyosi Itô Japan1955-1956
1988 Friedrich Hirzebruch West Germany1952-1954, 1959-1960
1989 Alberto Calderón Argentina1953-1955
1989 John Milnor United States1966, 1970-1990, 1999, 2002
1992 Lennart Carleson Sweden1961-1962, 1988-1989
1994/5 Jürgen Moser Germany/United States1970-1971
1995/6 Robert Langlands Canada1962-1963, 1972-current
1995/6 Andrew Wiles United Kingdom1981, 1992, 1995-2004, 2007
Wolf Prize in Physics
YearPrize winnerCountryYears affiliated with IAS
1981 Freeman Dyson United Kingdom/United States1948-1950, 1953-current
1993 Benoit Mandelbrot France/United States1953-1954
1994 Yoichiro Nambu Japan/United States1952-1954

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References

  1. Wolf Foundation
  2. "Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars".