Awards
- Nobel Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Andrew Fire and Craig Mello
- Nobel Prize in Physics: John C. Mather and George Smoot
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Roger Kornberg
- Abel Prize in Mathematics: Lennart Carleson
- Fields Prize in Mathematics: Andrei Okounkov, Grigori Perelman (declined), Terence Tao, and Wendelin Werner
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