list of mathematicians awarded the Crafoord Prize

This is a list of mathematicians who’ve been awarded the Crafoord Prize, sorted by year. In the 25-year history of the award, it has been for mathematics in only four years.

1982: Vladimir Arnold and Louis Nirenberg

1988: Pierre Deligne (and Alexander Grothendieck, who turned it down)

1994: Simon Donaldson and Shing-Tung Yau

2001: Alain Connes