The London Mathematical Society has announced the election of Director-General Shigefumi Mori to Honorary Membership of the Society in 2024. The London Mathematical Society, founded in 1865, is a historic scientific academy.
He was recognized as having “made major advances in the field of algebraic geometry by developing the minimal model programme with insight that has opened up the understanding of higher-dimensional varieties from a completely new perspective”.
He proved the existence of “minimal models for three-dimensional algebraic varieties” and for that he was awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1990.