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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
Year Prize winner Country Years affiliated with IAS
1978 Carl Ludwig Siegel West Germany 1935, 1940-1951, 1960
1979 Jean Leray France 1950–1960
1979 André Weil France 1937, 1958-1998
1980 Henri Cartan France 1966-1967
1982 Hassler Whitney United States 1952-1989
1983/4 Shiing-Shen Chern United States 1943-1945, 1949, 1954-1955, 1964
1983/4 Paul Erdős Hungary 1938-1940
1984/5 Kunihiko Kodaira Japan 1949-1952, 1956-1961
1986 Atle Selberg Norway 1947-2007
1987 Kiyosi Itô Japan 1955-1956
1988 Friedrich Hirzebruch West Germany 1952-1954, 1959-1960
1989 Alberto Calderón Argentina 1953-1955
1989 John Milnor United States 1966, 1970-1990, 1999, 2002
1992 Lennart Carleson Sweden 1961-1962, 1988-1989
1994/5 Jürgen Moser Germany/United States 1970-1971
1995/6 Robert Langlands Canada 1962-1963, 1972-current
1995/6 Andrew Wiles United Kingdom 1981, 1992, 1995-2004, 2007
Wolf Prize in Physics
Year Prize winner Country Years affiliated with IAS
1981 Freeman Dyson United Kingdom/United States 1948-1950, 1953-current
1993 Benoit Mandelbrot France/United States 1953-1954
1994 Yoichiro Nambu Japan/United States 1952-1954

References

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