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Hong Wang was awarded the 2026 Fields Medal, with the proof of the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture cited.

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The International Mathematical Union announced the 2026 Fields Medals at the ICM opening ceremony in Philadelphia on July 23, 2026, naming Hong Wang alongside Yu Deng, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman. Announcements from NYU, IHES, École polytechnique and Quanta Magazine all report the medal and describe the citation as honouring her work in harmonic analysis, including Fourier restriction and the three-dimensional Kakeya problem. The IMU citation document was not readable in this pass, so the exact citation wording rests on secondary reports.

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