List of Fields Medal winners by university affiliation
This list ofFields Medal winners by university affiliation shows the university affiliations of Fields Medal winners since 1936. The Fields Medal is awarded every four years during the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians, and this list considers Fields medalists as equal individuals, regardless of the total number of winners who received the medal each time. The list does not include affiliations with research institutes such as IAS and MSRI in the United States, as well as IHES and CNRS in France. In this list, universities are presented in descending order starting from those affiliated with most Fields Medal winners. The university affiliations in this list are all official academic affiliations such as degree programs and official academic employment. Non-academic affiliations such as advisory committee and administrative staff are generally excluded. The official academic affiliations fall into three categories: 1) Alumni Long-term academic Staff, and 3) Short-term academic staff. Graduates are defined as those who hold Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate or equivalent degrees from a university, while attendees are those who formally enrolled in degree programs at a university but did not complete the programs; thus, honorary degrees, summer attendees, exchange students and auditing students are excluded. The category of "Long-term academic staff" consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of "Short-term academic staff" consists of lecturers, postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors/scholars, and equivalent academic positions. At any university, the specific academic title solely determines the type of affiliation, regardless of the actual time the position was held by a medalist. Further explanations on "visitors" under "Short-term academic staff" are now presented. 1) All informal or personal visits are excluded from the list; 2) all employment-based visiting positions, which carry teaching/research duties, are included as affiliations in the list; 3) as for award-based visiting positions, to minimize controversy this list takes a conservative view and includes the positions as affiliations only if the medalists were required to assume employment-level duty or the medalists specifically classified the visiting positions as "appointment" or similar in reliable sources such as their curriculum vitae. To be specific, some award-based visiting positions such as the "Shiing-Shen Chern Visiting Professorship" in UC Berkeley are awards/honors without employment-level duty; attending meetings and giving public lectures, talks or non-curricular seminars are not employment-level duties. Finally, summer visitors are generally excluded from the list unless summer work yielded significant end products such as research publications and components of Fields-winning work, since summer terms are not part of formal academic years; the same rule applies to extension schools of universities. The number following a person's name is the year he/she received the Fields Medal; in particular, a number with asterisk means the person received the award while he/she was working at the institution containing that asterisk. A name underlined implies that this person has been listed for a same institution previously. If a person had multiple positions under one category, only the position with highest rank is considered. This list, together with List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation and List of Turing Award laureates by university affiliation, presents the university affiliations of people who have won highest honors in fundamental academic disciplines.
