Russian-Born Mathematician Wins Math's Version of the Nobel

From Scientific American:

Geometer Mikhail Gromov has won the 2009 Abel Prize, a sort of math analogue to the Nobel Prizes, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced yesterday. (The Swedes famously do not administer a Nobel in mathematics, so the Norwegians jumped in with the Abel in 2003.) The Russian-born Gromov, 65, of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, France, receives six million Norwegian kroner (about $925,000) as part of the prize. Gromov also holds an appointment at New York University.

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