Tadeusz Iwaniec (born October 9, 1947 in

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, and since 1996 John Raymond French Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at

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are twin brothers.

Awards and honors

Iwaniec was given the Prize of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1980, the Alfred Jurzykowski Award in Mathematics in 1997, the Prix 2001 Institut Henri-Poincaré Gauthier-Villars, and the 2009 Sierpinski Medal of the Polish Mathematical Society and Warsaw University. In 1998 he was elected as a foreign member of the Academia di Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche, Italy and in 2012 as a foreign member of the

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