Maryna Viazovska received the Fields medal for her groundbreaking work on the optimality of the E8 and Leech lattices for sphere packings; she has been expected

Maryna Viazovska received the Fields medal for her groundbreaking work on the optimality of the E8 and Leech lattices for sphere packings; she has been expected to win the Fields medal for 3 years now, long before the war.