Peter Scholze, director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and professor at the University of Bonn, has been awarded the Pius XI Gold Medal 2020 by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
The medal is awarded every two years to a young scientist under the age of 45, chosen for his or her exceptional promise. After Luis A. Caffarelli (1988), Laure Saint-Raymond (2004), and Cédric Villani (2014), Peter Scholze is only the fourth mathematician to receive this honor.
Peter Scholze was born in 1987. After studying mathematics at the University of Bonn, master’s degree in 2010, PhD in 2012, he became Clay Research Fellow from 2011 to 2016 and Chancellor’s Professor at UC Berkeley in fall 2014. ...
