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Pierre Deligne
* October 3, 1944, Brussels, Belgium
Fields Medal - 1978
For providing a 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.
Abel Prize - 2013
For seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields.