1. Robert Langlands is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory, for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize.
Robert Langlands is emeritus professor and occupied Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, until 2020 when he retired.
Robert Langlands then went to Yale University, where he received a Ph.
Robert Langlands was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1964 to 1965, then was a professor at Yale University from 1967 to 1972.
Robert Langlands was appointed Hermann Weyl Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1972, and became professor emeritus in January 2007.
Robert Langlands's first accomplishment in this field was a formula for the dimension of certain spaces of automorphic forms, in which particular types of Harish-Chandra's discrete series appeared.
In 2018, Robert Langlands was awarded the Abel Prize for "his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory".
Robert Langlands was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1972 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981.
Robert Langlands was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.
Robert Langlands was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993 and a member of the American Philosophical Society 2004.
In 2019, Robert Langlands was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada.
On January 10,2020, Robert Langlands was honoured at Semiahmoo Secondary, which installed a mural to celebrate his contributions to mathematics.
Robert Langlands has been married to Charlotte Lorraine Cheverie since 1957.
Robert Langlands speaks English, French, Turkish and German, and reads Russian.