AbelLaureatesList 2009-05-24 14:08:29 2009-05-24 14:25:20 Topic biographies on PlanetPhysics-org Abel award notable mathematicians and mathematical physicists Abel prize awards \section{Abel Award Laureates} The Abel award is an International Award by a Norwegian committee is awarded for outstanding, exceptional work by living mathematicians, mathematical physicists or theoretical physicists. One can say that todate all of the awards are for advanced mathemtics relevant to both `pure' mathematics and physics. The following is the current short list of Abel Laureates. \begin{itemize} \item 2003: Jean-Pierre Serre, ``{\em for playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory.}'' \item 2004: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer, ``for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics.'' \item 2005: Peter D. Lax, ``for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions.'' \item 2006: Lennart Carleson, ``for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems.'' \item 2007: Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan, ``for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations.'' \item 2009: \PMlinknname{Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov}{http://planetphysics.org/encyclopedia/MaximKonsevitch.html}, ``for his revolutionary contributions to geometry.'' (Also received the Fields Medal in 1995 and the Crafoord Proze in 2008.) \end{itemize}