Curriculum Vitae

Pierre R. Deligne



Born: October 3, 1944 at Etterbeek (Belgium)


Education:

Primary School:   9/50 to 6/56 at Schaerbeek (Belgium)

Secondary School:   9/56 to 6/62 at Brussel (Belgium): Athénée Adolphe Max, Boulevard Clovis

University of Brussel:   9/62 to 7/66: mathematics
In the academic year 65/66 I was concurrently foreign student (pensionnaire étranger) at

Ecole Normale Supérieure:   9/65 to 5/66: 45 Rue d'Ulm, Paris (France)
At the University of Brussel, I received degrees which are the equivalent of the American B.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics;

B.A.:   Licence en mathématiques, 7/66

Ph.D.  Doctorat en mathématiques, 11/68
I received the equivalent of the Ph.D. also from the University of Paris-Sud (France):

Ph.D.:   Doctorat d'Etat des Sciences Mathématiques, 2/72

Employment history

9/67 to 8/68:  Aspirant (= junior scientist) at F.N.R.S. (Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique, rue d'Egmont, Brussel, Belgium) and concurrently guest at IHES (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France)

9/68 to 1/70:  Visiting member at IHES

2/70 to 9/84:  Permanent member at IHES

9/84 to present:  Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

Awards, Academic Honors

6/74Francois Deruyts prize, awarded by the Belgium Royal Academy (Period 70-74)
12/74Henri Poincaré medal, awarded by the Academy of Sciences (Paris)
6/75Quinquennal prize "doctor A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart" for the period 1971-1975 (for mathematics, physics, and chemistry), awarded by the F.N.R.S. (the Belgian analogue of the National Science Foundation)
7/78Fields medal, awarded at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Helsinki, 1978
9/88Crafoord prize (Stockholm). Awarded jointly to A. Grothendieck and P. Deligne
1978Elected membre associé étranger, Académie des Sciences, Paris
1978Elected foreign honorary member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
5/89Doctor honoris causa of the Flemish University of Brussel (V.U.B.)
3/94Elected membre associé, Académie Royale de Belgique
1/95Doctor honoris causa of Ecole Normale Supérieure
9/95Honorary member of Moscow Mathematical Society
6/03Elected honorary member of the London Mathematical Society
10/03Elected foreign member, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei
11/04Recipient of Balzan Prize in Mathematics
5/07Elected Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences
02/08Recipient of Wolf Prize, Awarded jointly to P. Deligne, P. Griffiths, and D. Mumford
I am doctor honoris causa of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (May 1989), and of Ecole Normale Supérieure
(January 1995).






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