Fields Medal winners born in the Soviet Union
The top 3 according to 38 votes from people: Grigory Margulis · Efim Zelmanov · Vladimir Drinfeld. (Updated Jul 22, 2022.)
The Fields Medal, the highest honour in mathematics for researchers under 40, is awarded every four years. Ten mathematicians born in the Soviet Union have won it: from Sergei Novikov in 1970, who was not allowed to attend the ceremony, to Grigori Perelman, who declined the medal, and Maryna Viazovska in 2022.
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Top 10
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Grigory Margulis
Fields Medal 1978. Born in Moscow. He too could not collect the medal in person in Helsinki.
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Efim Zelmanov
Fields Medal 1994. Born in Khabarovsk. For solving the restricted Burnside problem.
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Vladimir Drinfeld
Fields Medal 1990. Born in Kharkiv. Quantum groups and the Langlands programme.
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Maxim Kontsevich
Fields Medal 1998. Born in Khimki. Mathematical physics, knot theory and quantisation.
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Sergei Novikov
Fields Medal 1970. Born in Gorky. For his work in topology. The authorities did not let him travel to the ceremony in Nice.
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Vladimir Voevodsky
Fields Medal 2002. Born in Moscow. Motivic cohomology and the proof of the Milnor conjecture.
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Andrei Okounkov
Fields Medal 2006. Born in Moscow. Bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry.
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Stanislav Smirnov
Fields Medal 2010. Born in Leningrad. Conformal invariance of percolation and the Ising model.
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Grigori Perelman
Fields Medal 2006. Born in Leningrad. Proved the Poincaré conjecture and declined the medal.
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Maryna Viazovska
Fields Medal 2022. Born in Kyiv. A Ukrainian mathematician who solved the densest sphere packing problem in dimension 8; the second woman to win the Fields Medal.
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