Fields Medal
Jewish recipients of the Fields Medal documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 23% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
15 documented recipients
Jesse Douglas1897
Solved Plateau's problem (first Fields Medal, 1936)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Laurent Schwartz1950
Distribution Theory in Mathematics
Source: Fields Medal 1950
Klaus Roth1925
Number theory; Roth's theorem on Diophantine approximation (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Paul Cohen1934
Forcing method; independence of the continuum hypothesis (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Alexander Grothendieck1928
Reshaped algebraic geometry with scheme theory (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Alan Baker1939
Transcendental number theory; linear forms in logarithms (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Charles Fefferman1949
Harmonic analysis and PDEs (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Gregori Margulis1946
Lie groups and ergodic theory (Fields Medal, Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Michael Freedman1951
Solved the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Vladimir Drinfeld1954
Introduced quantum groups; geometric Langlands (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Edward Witten1951
Mathematical physics and string theory; only physicist to win the Fields Medal
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Efim Zelmanov1955
Group theory; solved the restricted Burnside problem (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Grigori Perelman1966
Proved the Poincare conjecture (declined Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Wendelin Werner1968
Probability; Schramm-Loewner evolution (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Elon Lindenstrauss1970
Ergodic theory and number theory (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics