John Milnor - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	20-February-1931
Place of Birth	Orange (Essex County, New Jersey)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	John Willard Milnor
Profession	Mathematician
John Willard Milnor is a highly influential American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory and dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and one of the four mathematicians to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, and the Abel Prize.

Awards by John Milnor

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Milnor.

2011

Abel Prize	(For pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra.)

1989

Wolf Prize in Mathematics	(For ingenious and highly original discoveries in geometry, which have opened important new vistas in topology from the algebraic, combinatorial, and differentiable viewpoint.)

1966

National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science	(For clever and ingenious approaches in topology which have solved long outstanding problems and opened new exciting areas in this active branch of mathematics.)

1962

Fields Medal	(For his work in differential topology.)

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