List of Fields Medal winners by university affiliation
This list of Fields Medal winners by university affiliation shows the university affiliations of Fields Medal winners since 1936 (as of 2018, 60 winners in total).[1] The Fields Medal is awarded every four years during the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), and this list considers Fields medalists as equal individuals, regardless of the total number of winners who received the medal each time.[1][2] The list does not include affiliations with research institutes such as IAS and MSRI in the United States, as well as IHES and CNRS in France. In this list, universities are presented in descending order starting from those affiliated with most Fields Medal winners.
The university affiliations in this list are all official academic affiliations such as degree programs and official academic employment. Non-academic affiliations such as advisory committee and administrative staff are generally excluded. The official academic affiliations fall into three categories: 1) Alumni (graduates and attendees), 2) Long-term academic Staff, and 3) Short-term academic staff. Graduates are defined as those who hold Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate or equivalent degrees from a university, while attendees are those who formally enrolled in degree programs at a university but did not complete the programs; thus, honorary degrees, summer attendees, exchange students and auditing students are excluded. The category of "Long-term academic staff" consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of "Short-term academic staff" consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors/scholars (visitors), and equivalent academic positions. At any university, the specific academic title solely determines the type of affiliation, regardless of the actual time the position was held by a medalist.
Further explanations on "visitors" under "Short-term academic staff" are now presented. 1) All informal or personal visits are excluded from the list; 2) all employment-based visiting positions, which carry teaching/research duties, are included as affiliations in the list; 3) as for award-based visiting positions, to minimize controversy this list takes a conservative view and includes the positions as affiliations only if the medalists were required to assume employment-level duty (teaching/research) or the medalists specifically classified the visiting positions as "appointment" or similar in reliable sources such as their curriculum vitae. To be specific, some award-based visiting positions such as the "Shiing-Shen Chern Visiting Professorship" in UC Berkeley are awards/honors without employment-level duty;[3] attending meetings and giving public lectures, talks or non-curricular seminars are not employment-level duties. Finally, summer visitors are generally excluded from the list unless summer work yielded significant end products such as research publications and components of Fields-winning work, since summer terms are not part of formal academic years; the same rule applies to extension schools of universities.
The number following a person's name is the year he/she received the Fields Medal; in particular, a number with asterisk (*) means the person received the award while he/she was working at the institution (including emeritus staff) containing that asterisk. A name underlined implies that this person has been listed for a same institution previously (i.e., multiple affiliations). If a person had multiple positions under one category, only the position with highest rank is considered.
This list, together with List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation and List of Turing Award laureates by university affiliation, presents the university affiliations of people who have won highest honors in fundamental academic disciplines.
Summary of results
Top universities worldwide since 1936
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Rank | University | Total | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff | Overlap[Note 1] | |
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1 | Harvard University | 18 | 7 | 6 | 10 | −5 | |
2 | PSL Research University | 17 | 12 | 6 | 5 | −6 | |
3 | Princeton University | 15 | 7 | 11 | 3 | −6 | |
4 | University of California, Berkeley | 14 | 3 | 7 | 6 | −2 | |
5 | University of Cambridge | 11 | 8 | 6 | 4 | −7 | |
6 | University of Chicago | 10 | 2 | 6 | 4 | −2 | |
7 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
Stanford University | 8 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | ||
9 | Paris-Saclay University | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | −3 | |
10 | Moscow State University | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | −2 | |
Sorbonne University | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | −1 | ||
12 | Columbia University | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | −2 | |
New York University | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
Stony Brook University | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | ||
Yale University | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Top universities worldwide since 2000
According to Wikipedia policies on no original research and objectivity/neutrality, it is impossible in Wikipedia to assign various weights to different types of affiliations. Hence, all types of affiliations count equally in the following table and throughout the whole page.
Rank | University | Total | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff | Overlap | |
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1 | Princeton University | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | −2 | |
2 | University of California, Berkeley | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |
PSL Research University | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | −2 | ||
4 | New York University | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
Sorbonne University | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
6 | Harvard University | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | −2 | |
Paris-Saclay University | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | -2 | ||
Stanford University | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
9 | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | −1 | |
ETH Zurich | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | −1 | ||
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
Moscow State University | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Saint Petersburg State University | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Stony Brook University | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
University of Cambridge | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
University of Chicago | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
University of Geneva | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Harvard University (1st)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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Harvard University, United States | |||
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PSL Research University (2nd)
Princeton University (3rd)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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Princeton University, United States | |||
Notes: 1) The Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton is an independent research institute which is not affiliated with the university.[40][41] | |||
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University of California, Berkeley (4th)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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University of California, Berkeley, United States | |||
Notes: 1) The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) at Berkeley is an independent research institute not affiliated with the university. | |||
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University of Cambridge (5th)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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University of Cambridge, United Kingdom | |||
11 |
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University of Chicago (6th)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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University of Chicago, United States | |||
10 |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (7th, Tie)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States | |||
8 |
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Stanford University (7th, Tie)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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Stanford University, United States | |||
8 |
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Paris-Saclay University, Orsay (9th)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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Université Paris-Saclay, whose concerned constituent institution is the former Université Paris-Sud and we don't consider IHES, France | |||
7 |
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Moscow State University (10th, Tie)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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Moscow State University, Russia | |||
6 |
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Sorbonne University, Paris (10th, Tie)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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Sorbonne Université, whose concerned constituent institution is the former Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France | |||
6 |
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Columbia University (12th, Tie)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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Columbia University, United States | |||
5 |
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New York University (12th, Tie)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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New York University, United States | |||
5 |
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Stony Brook University (12th, Tie)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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Stony Brook University, United States | |||
5 |
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Yale University (12th, Tie)
Affiliates | Alumni | Long-term academic staff | Short-term academic staff |
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Yale University, United States | |||
5 |
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Other universities (16th – 42nd)
16th (4 Affiliates)
21st (3 Affiliates)
28th (2 Affiliates)
42nd (1 Affiliate)
See also
Notes
- Overlap of affiliates among the three columns.
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