awards 1990awarded the Fields Medal 1990elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1991awarded the Rutherford Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand 1991awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Auckland 1992elected to the Australian Academy of Science as a Corresponding Fellow 1992awarded a Miller Professorship at the University of California Berkeley 2002appointed Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DCNZM) in the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, for services to mathematics 2009his DCNZM redesignated to a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2009 Special Honours 2012elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society Publications See also Aharonov–Jones–Landau algorithm Planar algebra Subfactor References External links Jones' home page Career profile page at the University of Auckland Joan S. Birman: The Work of Vaughan F. R. Jones in Ichirō Satake (ed.): Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 21–29 August 1990, Kyoto, Japan, Springer, 1991 (Laudatio for Fields-Medal 1990; online) 1952 births 2020 deaths People from Gisborne, New Zealand People from Waikato People educated at Auckland Grammar School University of Auckland alumni Fields Medalists 20th-century New Zealand mathematicians 21st-century New Zealand mathematicians New Zealand expatriates in Switzerland University of Geneva alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Vanderbilt University faculty Knights Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand New Zealand Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Rutherford Medal Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science