title: Gérard Laumon
text: # Gérard Laumon
  
  Gérard Laumon (French:; born 1952) is a French mathematician, best known for his results in number theory, for which he was awarded the Clay Research Award.
  
  ## Life and work
  
  Laumon studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Paris-Sud 11 University, Orsay. He was awarded the Silver Medal of the CNRS in 1987, and the E. Dechelle prize of the French Academy of the Sciences in 1992.
  
  In 2004, Laumon and Ngô Bảo Châu received the Clay Research Award for the proof of the fundamental lemma for unitary groups, a component in the Langlands program in number theory.
  
  In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Clay Research Award
  * CNRS Silver Medal
  * E. Dechelle Prize of the French Academy of Sciences
  