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Also Known As Pierre René Deligne
Born October 3, 1944 (age 80) • Brussels • Belgium
Awards And Honors Abel Prize (2013) • Fields Medal (1978)
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich
Russian mathematician
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
John Tate
American mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings
German mathematician
David Mumford
British mathematician
Hironaka Heisuke
Japanese mathematician
Mori Shigefumi
Japanese mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Serre, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits
Belgian mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist

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