Awards
- Fields Prize in Mathematics: Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich and Curtis T. McMullen
- Nobel Prize
- Physics – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui
- Chemistry – Walter Kohn, John Pople
- Medicine – Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
- Turing Award: Jim Gray
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: Karl Karekin Turekian
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