The Abel Prize is an annual prize awarded in memory of Niels Henrik Abel by the Niels Henrik Abel Memorial Fund of Norway to recognize a person's ``outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics.'' A winner of the prize is called an Abel Laureate. A board of five mathematicians is chosen by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters to nominate mathematicians for the prize and make a recommendation to the Academy, which then selects the winner. Besides the prestige, the prize includes a monetary award of 750000 euros.

Abel Laureates

• Jean-Pierre Serre ``for playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory.''
• Jacques Tits and John Griggs Thompson for contributions to the theory of groups.
• Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov ``for his revolutionary contributions to geometry.''

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