Honors and Awards
Serre, at twenty-seven in 1954, is the youngest ever to be awarded the Fields Medal. In 1985, he went on to win the Balzan Prize, the Steele Prize in 1995, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2000, and was the first recipient of the Abel Prize in 2003.
He is a foreign member of several scientific Academies (France, US, Norway, Sweden, Russia, ...) and has received about a dozen honorary degrees (Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, ...).
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