| 1936 | Lars Valerian Ahlfors (Harvard University) |
The first person in history to receive a Fields medal was a Finnish Ahlfors in 1936. At that time Finland was at war with England, no person could bring more than 10 crowns out of Finland. Ahlfors was accepting a job offer from Harvard, so he pawned his Fields Medal for ticket to leave Finland, later got the medal back from the pawn shop.
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Lars Valerian Ahlfors (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
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