list of Fields medalists
ListOfFieldsMedalists
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This is a list of mathematicians who've been awarded the Fields Medal, sorted by year.
1936: Lars Ahlfors (Finland), Jesse Douglas (U.S.)
1950: Laurent Schwartz (France), Atle Selberg (Norway)
1954: Kunihiko Kodaira (Japan), Jean-Pierre Serre (France)
1958: Klaus Roth (UK), René Thom (France)
1962: \PMlinkname{Lars Hörmander}{LarsHormander} (Sweden), John Milnor (U.S.)
1966: Michael Atiyah (UK), Paul Joseph Cohen (U.S.), Alexander Grothendieck (France; boycotted ceremony), Stephen Smale (U.S.)
1970: Alan Baker (UK), Heisuke Hironaka (Japan), Sergei Petrovich Novikov (USSR), John Griggs Thompson (U.S.)
1974: Enrico Bombieri (Italy), David Mumford (U.S.)
1978: Pierre Deligne (Belgium), Charles Fefferman (U.S.), Jacques Tits on behalf of Grigory Margulis (USSR), Daniel Quillen (U.S.)
1982: Alain Connes (France), William Thurston (U.S.), Shing-Tung Yau (China)
1986: Simon Donaldson (UK), Gerd Faltings (West Germany), Michael Freedman (U.S.)
1990: Vladimir Drinfeld (USSR), Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones (New Zealand), Shigefumi Mori (Japan), Edward Witten (U.S.)
1994: Efim Isakovich Zelmanov (Russia), Pierre-Louis Lions (France), Jean Bourgain (Belgium), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (France)
1998: Richard Ewen Borcherds (UK), William Timothy Gowers (UK), Maxim Kontsevich (Russia), Curtis T. McMullen (U.S.)
2002: Laurent Lafforgue (France), Vladimir Voevodsky (Russia)
2006: Andrei Okounkov (Russia), Grigori Perelman (Russia; refused award), Terence Tao (Australia), Wendelin Werner (France)
\subsection{Fictional winners}
The backstory for MIT professor Gerald Lambeau in {\it Good Will Hunting} says he won the Fields Medal for his work in combinatorics.