Goro Shimura, a mathematician who greatly influenced number theory in the second half of the twentieth century, was born in Japan on February 23, 1930. Over a career spanning six decades, he repeatedly made transformational discoveries that stimulated new lines of investigation and played a central role in the development of the field. Shimura earned his degrees at the University of Tokyo and held appointments at the University of Tokyo and Osaka University. He was a professor at Princeton University from 1964 until he retired in 1999. He authored numerous influential books and papers and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970, the Cole Prize in Number Theory in 1977, the Asahi Prize in 1991, and the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 1996. Goro Shimura passed away in Princeton on May 3, 2019, at the age of eighty-nine.
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