Definition:Fields Medal/Recipients/1978

Recipients of the Fields Medal

The recipients of the Fields Medal in $1978$ were as follows:

Recipient(s)	Citation
Pierre René Deligne	Gave 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.
Charles Louis Fefferman	Contributed several innovations that revised the study of multidimensional complex analysis by finding correct generalizations of classical (low-dimensional) results.
Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis	Provided innovative analysis of the structure of Lie groups. His work belongs to combinatorics, differential geometry, ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and Lie groups.
Daniel Gray Quillen	The prime architect of the higher algebraic K-theory, a new tool that successfully employed geometric and topological methods and ideas to formulate and solve major problems in algebra, particularly ring theory and module theory.