DELIGNE, PIERRE RENE
deligne@math.ias.edu

Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.

Francois Deruyts prize, awarded by the Belgium Royal Academy (1970-74) Henri Poincaré medal, awarded by the Academy of Sciences (Paris) (1974) 1978 Fields medal

Elected membre associé étranger, Académie des Sciences, Paris
Elected foreign honorary member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Doctor honoris causa of the Flemish University of Brussel (V.U.B.)
Doctor honoris causa of Ecole Normale Supérieure
Elected membre associé Académie Royale de Belgique

Contribution : Gave solution of the three Weil conjectures concerning generalizations of the Riemann hypothesis to finite fields. His work did much to unify algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory.

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