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Wealth Intelligence

Awards & Recognition

★AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1976)

★Inducted into Hedge Fund Manager Hall of Fame (2008)

★Honorary doctorates from York University, University of Edinburgh (2016), Trinity College Dublin (2018)

★Asteroid 6618 Jimsimons named in his honor (2016)

★S. Donald Sussman Fellowship at MIT

★Elected to American Philosophical Society (2007)

★Bloomberg Markets Magazine 50 Most Influential (2011)

Notable Facts

→Founded Renaissance Technologies in 1982, one of the most successful hedge funds ever

→Net worth of $31.4 billion at time of death (May 10, 2024)

→Co-developed Chern-Simons theory, foundational to string theory and quantum field theory

→Former NSA codebreaker and mathematics professor at Stony Brook University

→Medallion Fund averaged 66% gross returns over 30 years

→Major philanthropist with $4+ billion donated through Simons Foundation

→Pioneered quantitative investing using mathematical models and algorithms

→Received mathematics PhD from UC Berkeley at age 23

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