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Kontsevich, Maxim
1964 - Born on the 25th of August in Moscow, Russia.
1985 - He attended Moscow State University but left without a degree to become a researcher at the Institute for Problems of Information Transmission in Moscow.
1992 - He received his Ph.D. at the University of Bonn under Don Bernard Zagier.
- His thesis proves a conjecture by Edward Witten that two quantum gravitational models are equivalent.
1998 - He received a Fields Medal, at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.
2007 - Currently he is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France and visiting professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
1985 - He attended Moscow State University but left without a degree to become a researcher at the Institute for Problems of Information Transmission in Moscow.
1992 - He received his Ph.D. at the University of Bonn under Don Bernard Zagier.
- His thesis proves a conjecture by Edward Witten that two quantum gravitational models are equivalent.
1998 - He received a Fields Medal, at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.
2007 - Currently he is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France and visiting professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
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