
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2020 to Hillel Furstenberg from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Gregory Margulis from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA “for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics.”
A biography of Hillel Furstenberg is here
A biography of Gregory Margulis is here
You can watch the interview with Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis