Editing John Milnor (section)

==Awards and honors==
Milnor was elected as a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1961.<ref>{{Cite web|title=John Willard Milnor|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/john-willard-milnor|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en|access-date=May 31, 2020}}</ref> In 1962 Milnor was awarded the [[Fields Medal]] for his work in differential topology. He was elected to the United States [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1963 and the [[American Philosophical Society]] 1965.<ref>{{Cite web |title=John W. Milnor |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/52491.html |access-date=October 6, 2022 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=John+Milnor&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=October 6, 2022 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He later went on to win the [[National Medal of Science]] (1967), the [[Lester R. Ford Award]] in 1970<ref>{{cite journal|author=Milnor, John|title=A problem in cartography|journal=Amer. Math. Monthly|volume=76|issue=10|year=1969|pages=1101–1112|url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/a-problem-in-cartography|doi=10.2307/2317182|jstor=2317182}}</ref> and again in 1984,<ref>{{cite journal|author=Milnor, John|title=On the geometry of the Kepler problem|journal=Amer. Math. Monthly|volume=90|issue=6|year=1983|pages=353–365|url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/on-the-geometry-of-the-kepler-problem|doi=10.2307/2975570|jstor=2975570}}</ref> the [[Leroy P. Steele Prize]] for "Seminal Contribution to Research" (1982), the [[Wolf Prize]] in Mathematics (1989), the [[Leroy P. Steele Prize]] for Mathematical Exposition (2004), and the [[Leroy P. Steele Prize]] for Lifetime Achievement (2011). In 1991 a symposium was held at Stony Brook University in celebration of his 60th birthday.<ref>{{citation|title=Topological methods in modern mathematics| series=Proceedings of the symposium in honor of John Milnor's sixtieth birthday held at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, June 14–21, 1991|editor1-first=Lisa R.|editor1-last=Goldberg|editor2-first=Anthony V.|editor2-last=Phillips|publisher=[[Publish-or-Perish Press]]| location=Houston, TX|year=1993|isbn=978-0-914098-26-3}}</ref>

Milnor was awarded the 2011 [[Abel Prize]],<ref>{{cite web |author= |title=2011: John Milnor |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2011 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=August 22, 2022 |website=Abelprisen (Abel Prize) website}}</ref> for his "pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra."<ref name=hindu>{{cite news|last=Ramachandran|first=R.|title=Abel Prize awarded to John Willard Milnor|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article1565424.ece|access-date=March 24, 2011|newspaper=The Hindu|date=March 24, 2011}}</ref> Reacting to the award, Milnor told the ''[[New Scientist]]'' "It feels very good," adding that "[o]ne is always surprised by a call at 6 o'clock in the morning."<ref>{{cite news|last=Aron|first=Jacob|title=Exotic sphere discoverer wins mathematical 'Nobel'|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20281-exotic-sphere-discoverer-wins-mathematical-nobel.html|access-date=March 24, 2011|newspaper=New Scientist|date=March 23, 2011}}</ref>

In 2013 he became a [[fellow]] of the [[American Mathematical Society]], for "contributions to differential topology, geometric topology, algebraic topology, algebra, and dynamical systems".<ref>[https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS], [[American Mathematical Society]], retrieved November 4, 2013.</ref>

In 2020 he received the [[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] of the Russian Academy of Sciences.<ref>[http://www.ras.ru/about/awards/awdlist.aspx?awdid=1 Lomonosov Gold Medal 2020].</ref>