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Wendelin Werner
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Werner in 2007
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| Born | 23 September 1968 |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie |
| Awards | Heinz Gumin Prize (de) (2016) Fields Medal (2006) Pólya Prize (2006) Loève Prize (2005) Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand (2003) Fermat Prize (2001) EMS Prize (2000) Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet (1999) Davidson Prize (1998) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | CNRS Université Paris-Sud ETH Zurich University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Quelques propriétés du mouvement brownien plan (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean-François Le Gall |
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Wendelin Werner (born September 23, 1968) is a famous French mathematician. He was born in Germany. He studies how things move randomly. This includes topics like random walks and Brownian motion. He also works on Schramm–Loewner evolution. These are all parts of probability theory and mathematical physics.
In 2006, he received the Fields Medal. This is one of the highest awards a mathematician can get. He won it for his work on random processes and the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion. He is currently a professor at the University of Cambridge.
About Wendelin Werner
Werner was born in Cologne, West Germany. This was on September 23, 1968. His family moved to France when he was very young. He became a French citizen in 1977.
He studied at a special school called École Normale Supérieure in Paris. This was from 1987 to 1991. He then earned his PhD in 1993. His research was about Brownian motion, which describes the random movement of tiny particles. His advisor was Jean-François Le Gall.
Werner worked as a researcher at the CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research) from 1991 to 1997. During this time, he also spent two years at the University of Cambridge. He was a professor at the University of Paris-Sud from 1997 to 2013. He also taught at the École Normale Supérieure from 2005 to 2013. Later, he was a professor at the ETH Zurich from 2013 to 2023.
Awards and Honors
Wendelin Werner has received many important awards for his work. The most famous is the Fields Medal, which he won in 2006.
Other awards he has received include:
- The Rollo Davidson Prize in 1998.
- The Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet in 1999.
- The Fermat Prize in 2001.
- The Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand from the French Academy of Sciences in 2003.
- The Loève Prize in 2005.
- The George Pólya Prize in 2006, which he shared with Gregory Lawler and Oded Schramm.
- The Heinz Gumin Prize in 2016.
He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2008. He is also a member of other science academies, like the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2020, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Other Facts
Werner also had a small part in a French movie. It was called La Passante du Sans-Souci and came out in 1982.
See also
In Spanish: Wendelin Werner para niños
