Awards
Wiles has been awarded several major prizes in mathematics and science:
- Junior Whitehead Prize of the LMS (1988)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1989)
- Schock Prize (1995)
- Fermat Prize (1995)
- Wolf Prize (1995/6)
- NAS Award in Mathematics from the National Academy of Sciences (1996)
- Royal Medal (1996)
- Ostrowski Prize (1996)
- Cole Prize (1997)
- Wolfskehl Prize (1997) – see Paul Wolfskehl
- A silver plaque from the International Mathematical Union (1998) recognizing his achievements, in place of the Fields Medal, which is restricted to those under 40 (Wiles was born in 1953 and proved the theorem in 1994)
- King Faisal Prize (1998)
- Clay Research Award (1999)
- Pythagoras Award (Croton, 2004)
- Shaw Prize (2005)
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