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Also Known As Alexander Raddatz
Born March 28, 1928 • Berlin • Germany
Died November 13, 2014 (aged 86) • Ariège • France
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1966)
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
René Frédéric Thom
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Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings
German mathematician
Wendelin Werner
French mathematician
Saunders Mac Lane
American mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Simon Donaldson
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Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
William Paul Thurston
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Vladimir Voevodsky
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Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
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Pierre Deligne
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David Mumford
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Hironaka Heisuke
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Mori Shigefumi
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Maxim Kontsevich
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Daniel Gray Quillen
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