Endre Szemerédi

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ, USA och Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Ungerska vetenskapsakademien, Budapest, Ungern

Rolf Schock Prize - Mathematics 2008

Citation
“for his deep and pioneering work from 1975 on arithmetic progressions in subsets of the integers, which has led to great progress and discoveries in several branches of mathematics”
Press release Popular Science Background