On August 3, 1994, during the Opening Ceremonies for ICM-94 in Zurich, four Fields Medals and the Nevanlinna Prize were presented. David Mumford of Harvard University, chair of the Fields Medal Committee and vice-president of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), called the medalists to the stage. ICM Honorary President Beno Eckmann, founder of the Mathematical Research Institute at the ETH and former IMU secretary presented the medals. The Nevanlinna Prize Committee Chair Jacques-Louis Lions of Collège de France presented that prize.

• Jean Bourgain of the Institut des Hautes Ètudes Scientifiques and Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton);

• Pierre-Louis Lions of CEREMADE, Université de Paris-Dauphine;

• Jean-Christophe Yoccoz of Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay); and

• Efim I. Zelmanov of the University of Wisconsin at Madison (now at the University of Chicago).

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