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Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics:

• 1978 Israel M. Gel'fand, Carl L. Siegel
• 1979 Jean Leray, André Weil
• 1980 Henri Cartan, Andrei Kolmogorov
• 1981 Lars Ahlfors, Oscar Zariski
• 1982 Hassler Whitney, Mark Grigoryevich Krein
• 1983/4 Shiing S. Chern, Paul Erdös
• 1984/5 Kunihiko Kodaira, Hans Lewy
• 1986 Samuel EilenbergSamuel Eilenberg ( September 30, 1913- January 30, 1998) was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Warsaw, Poland and died in New York, USA. His main interest was topology. He worked on the axiomatic treatment of homology theory with Norman Steenrod, and, Atle SelbergAtle Selberg (born June 17, 1917) is a Norwegian mathematician, one of the greatest analytic number theorists of all time. Selberg was born in Langesund, Norway. While he was still at school he was influenced by the work of Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan.
• 1987 Kiyoshi Ito , Peter LaxPeter David Lax (born 1926) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation law
• 1988 Friedrich HirzebruchFriedrich E. Hirzebruch (born 17 October 1927) is a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He was born in Hamm, Westphalia. He studied at the University of, Lars HörmanderLars Valter Hormander (born 24 January 1931) is a Swedish mathematician and one of the leading experts in partial differential equations. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1962, and the Wolf Prize in 1988. His Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Oper
• 1989 Alberto CalderónAlberto P Calderon ( September 14, 1920 April 16, 1998) was a mathematician best known for his work on the theory of partial differential equations and singular integral operators. He was born in Mendoza, Argentina, and graduated in civil engineering from, John MilnorJohn Willard Milnor (b. February 20, 1931) is a mathematician known for his work in differential topology. As an undergraduate at Princeton University he was named a Putnam Fellow in 1949 and 1950. He continued on to graduate school at Princeton, wrote hi
• 1990 Ennio de Giorgi , Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
• 1991 Not awarded
• 1992 Lennart Carleson , John G. Thompson
• 1993 Mikhail Gromov, Jacques Tits
• 1994/5 Jurgen Moser
• 1995/6 Robert Langlands, Andrew Wiles
• 1996/7 Joseph B. Keller , Yakov G. Sinai
• 1998 Not awarded
• 1999 Laszlo Lovász , Elias M. Stein
• 2000 Raoul Bott, Jean-Pierre Serre
• 2001 Vladimir Arnol'd, Saharon Shelah
• 2002/3 Mikio Sato, John Tate
• 2004 Not awarded