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Laureate

Maryam Mirzakhani

1977–2017 · Iran · Female

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Awards

  1. 2014

    Fields Medal

    Math

    For her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.

  2. 2020

    Breakthrough Prize — Mathematics

    Math

    for revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials, including the proof of the 'magic wand theorem'.