List of countries by number of Fields Medalists

This article includes a list of countries by number of Fields Medal winners. That is, a list of countries ranked by their Fields Medalists.

The figures include all Fields Medals awarded up to and including 03 August 2018 by their country of birth and citizenship at the time of the announcement of the award.

Rank Country Fields medals (#) Fields medalists (2018)
1 United States13Curtis T. McMullen, John G. Thompson, David Mumford, Charles Fefferman, Daniel Quillen, William Thurston, Michael Freedman, Edward Witten, Jesse Douglas, Paul Cohen, Stephen Smale, John Milnor, Manjul Bhargava
2 France12Laurent Lafforgue, Cédric Villani, Alain Connes, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Laurent Schwartz, Jean-Pierre Serre, René Thom, Ngo Bao Chau, Artur Avila, Wendelin Werner, Alexander Grothendieck
3 Russia8Maxim Kontsevich, Vladimir Voevodsky, Andrei Okounkov, Grigori Perelman(Refused), Stanislav Smirnov, Sergei Novikov, Grigory Margulis, Efim Zelmanov
4 United Kingdom7Richard Borcherds, Timothy Gowers, Alan Baker, Simon Donaldson, Michael Atiyah, Klaus Roth, Caucher Birkar[n 1]
5 Germany5Gerd Faltings, Klaus Roth, Peter Scholze, Alexander Grothendieck, Wendelin Werner
6 Japan3Heisuke Hironaka, Shigefumi Mori, Kunihiko Kodaira
7 Belgium2Pierre Deligne, Jean Bourgain
7 Italy2Enrico Bombieri, Alessio Figalli
7 Australia2Terence Tao, Akshay Venkatesh
7 Iran2Maryam Mirzakhani, Caucher Birkar[n 1]
11 China1Shing-Tung Yau[n 2]
11 Sweden1Lars Hörmander
11 Finland1Lars Ahlfors
11 Israel1Elon Lindenstrauss
11 Austria1Martin Hairer[n 3]
11  Switzerland1Martin Hairer[n 3]
11 Ukraine1Vladimir Drinfeld
11 New Zealand1Vaughan Jones
11 Brazil1Artur Avila
11 Vietnam1Ngô Bảo Châu
11 Canada1Manjul Bhargava
11 Norway1Atle Selberg
11 India1Akshay Venkatesh

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Caucher Birkar was born in a Kurdish village in Iran and attended the University of Tehran but sought political asylum and now has British citizenship.
  2. ↑ Shing-Tung Yau was born in the People's Republic of China, but had Hong Kong residency at the time of the award. (He had no passport since he had never acquired any kind of British nationality, and used a Hong Kong Certificate of Identity for travel.)
  3. 1 2 Martin Hairer was born in Switzerland, but has Austrian citizenship.

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