The Abel Prize is a Norwegian prize awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians.
It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and directly modeled after the Nobel Prizes.
It comes with a monetary award of 7.5 million Norwegian Kroner (NOK), award prize money enhanced from 6 million NOK to 7.5 million NOK in 2019.
Year | Laureate(s) | Citizenship(s) |
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2003 | Jean-Pierre Serre | ![]() |
2004 | Michael Atiyah Isadore Singer | ![]() ![]() |
2005 | Peter Lax | ![]() ![]() |
2006 | Lennart Carleson | ![]() |
2007 | S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan | ![]() ![]() |
2008 | John G. Thompson Jacques Tits | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2009 | Mikhail Gromov | ![]() ![]() |
2010 | John Tate | ![]() |
2011 | John Milnor | ![]() |
2012 | Endre Szemerédi | ![]() ![]() |
2013 | Pierre Deligne | ![]() |
2014 | Yakov Sinai | ![]() ![]() |
2015 | John F. Nash Jr. Louis Nirenberg | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2016 | Andrew Wiles | ![]() |
2017 | Yves Meyer | ![]() |
2018 | Robert Langlands | ![]() ![]() |
2019 | Karen Uhlenbeck | ![]() |
2020 | Hillel Furstenberg Grigory Margulis | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |