Steele Prize (Lifetime Achievement) Winners
NAME YEAR COUNTRY ERDÖS NUMBER
Salomon Bochner 1979 Poland 2
Antoni Zygmund 1979 Poland 2
André Weil 1980 France 4
Gerhard P. Hochschild 1980 Germany 3
Oscar Zariski 1981 Poland 3
Fritz John 1982 Germany 4
Shiing Shen Chern 1983 China 2
Joseph L. Doob 1984 USA 2
Hassler Whitney 1985 USA 2
Saunders Mac Lane 1986 USA 3
Samuel Eilenberg 1987 Poland 2
Deane Montgomery 1988 USA 3
Irving Kaplansky 1989 Canada 1
Raoul Bott 1990 Hungary 3
Armand Borel 1991 Switzerland 3
Peter D. Lax 1992 Hungary/USA 3
Eugene B. Dynkin 1993 Russia/USA 3
Louis Nirenberg 1994 Canada/USA 3
John T. Tate 1995 USA 3
Goro Shimura 1996 Japan 2
Ralph S. Phillips 1997 USA 2
Nathan Jacobson 1998 USA 3
Richard V. Kadison 1999 USA 3
Isadore M. Singer 2000 USA 3
Harry Kesten 2001 Netherlands/USA 2
Elias M. Stein 2002 Belgium/USA 2
Michael Artin 2002 USA 3
Ronald L. Graham 2003 USA 1
Victor W. Guillemin 2003 USA 3
Cathleen S. Morawetz 2004 USA 3
Izrail M. Gelfand 2005 USSR (Russia) 3
Frederick W. Gehring 2006 USA 2
Dennis P. Sullivan 2006 USA 3
Henry P. Mckean, Jr. 2007 USA 2
George Lusztig 2008 USA 3
Luis Caffarelli 2009 Argentina 3
William Fulton 2010 USA 2
John Willard Milnor 2011 USA 3
Ivo Babuska 2012 Czech Rep./USA 3
Yakov G. Sinai 2013 Russia 4
Phillip A. Griffiths 2014 USA 3
Victor Kac 2015 USA 3
Barry Martin Simon 2016 USA 2
James Grieg Arthur 2017 Canada 4
Jean Bourgain 2018 Belgium/USA 2
Jeff Cheeger 2019 USA 3
Karen Uhlenbeck 2020 USA 3
Spencer Bloch 2021 USA 3
Richard P. Stanley 2022 USA 2
Nicholas M. Katz 2023 USA 3
Haim Brezis 2024 France 3
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