1954 Fields Medal (1)

Reason for Award

Achieved major results in the theory of harmonic integrals and numerous applications to Kählerian and more specifically toalgebraic varieties. He demonstrated, by sheaf cohomology, that such varieties areHodge manifolds.

Laureates

Kunihiko Kodaira,

Japan Japan

Other works in the same year

Achieved major results on thehomotopy groupsof spheres, especially in his use of the method of spectral sequences. Reformulated and extended some of the main results of complex variable theory in terms ofsheaves.

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