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Professor Graeme Segal wins Chern Medal
Authored on:
24th July 2026
Professor Graeme Segal, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, has been awarded the Chern Medal in Mathematics for his ‘enduring influence in a wide range of fields, including topology, mathematical physics, representation theory and category theory’. Graeme Segal was a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls from 1999 to 2009, and previously held a chair at Cambridge. Further information is in this video.
The Chern Medal is the lifetime achievement award of the International Mathematical Union, awarded every four years.