Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2024).
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Claire Voisin
Claire Voisin is a French mathematician known for her work in algebraic geometry. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and held the chair of algebraic geometry at the Collège de France from 2015 to 2020.
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Born 4 March 1962 · Q468049
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2024· 3 entries
Awarded Crafoord Prize in Mathematics (2024).
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Became the first woman awarded the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022).
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2021).
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2017).
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Awarded Shaw Prize (2017).
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Received the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences together with János Kollár
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2016· 3 entries
Won CNRS Gold medal (2016).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2016).
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Became the first female mathematician member of the Collège de France and is the first holder of the Chair of Algebraic Geometry
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Heinz Hopf Prize (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Was elected to the Academia Europaea
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the National Order of Merit (2013).
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2009· 1 entry
Became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2008).
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Awarded Clay Research Award (2008).
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics (2007).
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Was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics for, in addition to her work on the Kodaira conjecture, solving the generic case of Green's conjecture on the syzygies of the canonical embedding of an algebrai
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2006· 1 entry
Won CNRS silver medal (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
And the Clay Research Award in 2008 for her disproof of the Kodaira conjecture on deformations of compact Kähler manifolds
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2002· 1 entry
Voisin proved that the generalization of the Hodge conjecture for compact Kähler varieties is false
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2000· 1 entry
Each having a prize of one million US dollars
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Servant Prize (1996).
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded EMS Prize (1992).
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And the Servant Prize awarded by the Academy of Sciences in 1996
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Cours Peccot (1991).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded IBM Young Researcher Prize (1989).
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1988· 1 entry
Won CNRS bronze medal (1988).
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1962· 1 entry
Born 1962-03-04.
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