The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2007 Laureate

Robert Langlands, born 1936 is currently a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton. Born in Canada, Professor Langlands attended the University of British Columbia gaining an undergraduate degree in 1957 and the MSc in 1958. In 1960 he received his PhD from Yale University. He taught at Princeton and Yale before moving to IAS in 1972. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Canada and the US National Academy of Sciences.

The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2007 will be awarded in equal shares to Robert Langlands and Richard Taylor for initiating and developing a grand unifying vision of mathematics that connects prime numbers with symmetry.