Vaughan Jones
Vaughan Frederick Randel Jones was born on December 31, 1952. He grew up in Cambridge, New Zealand. He went to St. Peter’s School from the age of 8 till he was 12. In 1966 he went to school at Auckland Grammar School in Auckland. While there he was rewarded with a University Entrance Scholarship and a Giles Scholarship. He furthered his education at the University of Auckland in 1970.
In 1973 he was awarded a Swiss Government Scholarship that would let him do reserch in Switzerland. He taught at Auckland for a few months and then in 1974 he went in the Ecole de Physique in Geneva. In 1979 he was awarded the Docteur es Sciences (Mathematique) and in 1980 he was awarded the Vacheron Constantin Prize. He moved to the United States later that year and he taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1980 to 1981. That same year he moved to Pennsylvania and was an assistant proffessor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1985 at the University of California at Berkeley he was appointed Professor of Mathematics.
While doing his studies at Berkley he discoveres a new polynomial invariant for knots. That brought many different mathimatical ideas together. For his research he was awarded the Fields Medal at the 1990 International Congress in Kyoto.
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