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  1. Rayleigh biography
    • He was awarded an astronomy scholarship in 1864, then in the Tripos examinations of 1865 he was Senior Wrangler (the top First Class student) and in the same year he was the first Smith's prizeman.
    • Heathcote, in [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 27-33.
    • First, however, we note that [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 27-33.
    • In addition [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 27-33.
    • Rayleigh is perhaps most famous for his discovery the inert gas argon in 1895, work which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1904.
    • In his address on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize Rayleigh explained how he made his famous discovery (see for example [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 27-33.
    • In addition to the Nobel Prize he received thirteen honorary degrees, five government awards, and honorary membership of five learned societies world-wide.
    • He donated the proceeds of his Nobel Prize to the University of Cambridge to build an extension to the Cavendish laboratories.
    • Nobel Prize1904 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Rayleigh and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  2. Schwinger biography
    • For this work he received the Nature of Light Award of the National Academy of Sciences, and shared with Kurt Godel the first award of the $15 000 Albert Einstein Prize for achievement in Natural Science.
    • Schwinger was joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1965) for his work in formulating quantum electrodynamics and thus reconciling quantum mechanics with Einstein's special theory of relativity.
    • This topic, originating with the work of Dirac, was independently studied by Feynman who was a joint winner of the prize.
    • The Presentation Speech given by Ivar Waller on the occasion when Schwinger received the Nobel Prize put his work in context as follows:- .
    • One important result of the work of this year's Nobel Prize winners ..
    • Over his career he supervised over 70 doctoral students, 3 of whom have received Nobel prizes.
    • The Nobel Prize for Physics was certainly not the only honour Schwinger received.
    • On the contrary he received many honours, some of which we have already mentioned above, including the first Einstein Prize (1951), the National Medal of Science (1964), honorary doctorates from Purdue University (1961) and Harvard University (1962), and the Nature of Light Award of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (1949).
    • Nobel Prize1965 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Schwinger and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  3. Hadamard biography
    • By this time (1875) he was winning prizes in many subjects in the Concours General, the national competition for school pupils.
    • He was awarded first prize in algebra and first prize in mechanics in the Concours General of 1883.
    • The topic proposed for the prize, concerning filling gaps in Riemann's work on zeta functions, had been put forward by Hermite with his friend Stieltjes in mind.
    • Stieltjes had claimed in 1885 to have proved the Riemann hypothesis but had never published his "proof" and, after the prize topic was announced in 1890, Stieltjes discovered a gap in his "proof" which he was unable to fill.
    • He never submitted an entry for the prize but Hadamard, between the time his thesis was submitted and his oral examination, realised that his results could be applied to zeta functions.
    • His paper on entire functions and zeta functions was awarded first prize.
    • In the same year he published a paper on properties of dynamic trajectories which won the Bordin Prize of the Academy of Sciences.
    • The topic proposed for the prize had been one on geodesics and Hadamard's work in studying the trajectories of point masses on a surface led to certain non-linear differential equations whose solution also gave properties of geodesics.
    • He continued to receive prizes for his research and he was further honoured in 1906 with election as President of the French Mathematical Society.

  4. Mazur Barry biography
    • Mazur received four prizes from the American Mathematical Society, namely the Veblen Prize for geometry in 1966, the Cole Prize for number theory in 1982, the Chauvenet Prize for exposition in 1994, and the Steele Prize for seminal contribution to research in 2000.
    • In his reply on receiving the Steele Prize he spoke of this progression [Notices Amer.
    • Mazur's work in topology was outstanding and it led to the award of the Veblen Prize in 1966 for his work on the generalized Schoenflies theorem.
    • His move towards number theory, and some of his remarkable contributions to that topic, were detailed in the citation for the Steele Prize which was awarded:- .
    • Mazur had much earlier received the Cole prize for work which would prove important in the solution of Fermat's last Theorem.
    • AMS Veblen Prize1966 .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory1982 .
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1994 .
    • AMS Steele Prize2000 .

  5. Ito biography
    • In [My Sixty Years in Studies of Probability Theory : acceptance speech of the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (1998).',3)">3] he explains how this came about:- .
    • The background to Ito's famous 1942 paper On stochastic processes (Infinitely divisible laws of probability) which he published in the Japanese Journal of Mathematics is given in [Citation for the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences awarded to Kiyosi Ito by the Inamori Foundation (1998).',2)">2]:- .
    • Ito gives a wonderful description mathematical beauty in [My Sixty Years in Studies of Probability Theory : acceptance speech of the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (1998).',3)">3] which he then relates to the way in which he and other mathematicians have developed his fundamental ideas:- .
    • He was awarded the Asahi Prize in 1978, and in the same year he received the Imperial Prize and also the Japan Academy Prize.
    • In 1985 he received the Fujiwara Prize and in 1998 the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences from the Inamori Foundation.
    • These prizes were all from Japan, and a further Japanese honour was his election to the Japan Academy.
    • He received the Wolf Prize from Israel and honorary doctorates from the universities of Warwick, England and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
    • In [Citation for the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences awarded to Kiyosi Ito by the Inamori Foundation (1998).',2)">2] this tribute is paid to Ito:- .
    • Wolf Prize1987 .
    • DMV/IMU Gauss Prize2006 .

  6. Carleson biography
    • In this last mentioned position, he worked tirelessly to have the People's Republic of China represented on the Union and was the main driving force behind the creation of the Nevanlinna Prize honoring the contributions of computer science to mathematics by rewarding young theoretical computer scientists.
    • Carleson received the Wolf Prize 1992 together with John G Thompson.
    • In 2006 Carleson received his greatest honour when he received the Abel Prize:- .
    • On 23 May 2006 he received the Prize from Queen Sonja.
    • Carl Friedrich Gauss once described mathematics at the queen of science, and for a servant of this queen like me to stand here in these beautiful surroundings and receive the grand Abel Prize from a real queen is really an overwhelming event in my life.
    • He had also won numerous prizes, some of which we have mentioned above.
    • These are the Leroy Steel Prize from the American Mathematical Society (1984), the Wolf Prize (1992), the Lomonosov Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Sciences (2002), the Sylvester Medal from the Royal Society, London (2003), and the Abel Prize (2006).
    • AMS Steele Prize1984 .
    • Wolf Prize1992 .
    • Abel Prize2006 .

  7. Pauli biography
    • Pauli, writing about his days as a student at Munich, wrote (see the extracts from Pauli's Nobel Prize lecture in 1945 given in [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 411-421.',17)">17]):- .
    • It was in Gottingen that he first met Niels Bohr in person and he said (see for example [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 411-421.',17)">17]):- .
    • Pauli eagerly accepted the invitation and spent the year 1922-23 at Bohr's Institute [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 411-421.',17)">17]:- .
    • In 1923, Pauli was appointed a privatdozent at Hamburg [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 411-421.',17)">17]:- .
    • Pauli was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his:- .
    • He had been nominated for the prize by Einstein.
    • He did not go to Stockholm for the prize ceremony in 1945 but there was special ceremony at Princeton for him on 10 December.
    • Pauli received many honours for his work in addition to the Nobel Prize.
    • Nobel Prize1945 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Pauli and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  8. Arnold biography
    • An excellent overview of Arnold's contributions is given in the citation for the Wolf Prize awarded to him in 2001:- .
    • He has received many prizes, for example the Young Mathematicians Prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society (1958), the Lenin Prize (with Andrei Kolmogorov) (1965), the Crafoord Prize of the Swedish Academy of Sciences (with Louis Nirenberg) (1982), the Lobachevsky Prize of Russian Academy of Sciences (1992), the Harvey Prize, Technion, Haifa, Israel (1994), the Petr L Kapitsa Medal for Scientific Discoveries, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1997), Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2001), Prize of the American Institute of Physics (2001), and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2001).
    • The Harvey Prize was awarded:- .
    • The Wolf Prize was awarded:- .
    • Arnold was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2007), and in the following year he received the prestigious Shaw Prize in mathematical sciences.
    • The Shaw Prize was awarded in equal shares to Vladimir Arnold and Ludwig Faddeev:- .
    • The Press Release for the award of the Shaw Prize begins:- .
    • Wolf Prize2001 .
    • Shaw Prize2008 .

  9. Broglie biography
    • He explained how he was attracted to mathematical physics after the War (see for example [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 287-296.',9)">9]):- .
    • In a lecture de Broglie gave on the occasion when he received the Nobel Prize in 1929 he explained the background to the ideas contained in his doctoral thesis (see for example [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 287-296.',9)">9]):- .
    • His greatest honour was being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1929.
    • Let us quote further from the lecture (see for example [Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 287-296.',9)">9]):- .
    • After receiving the Nobel Prize in 1929 De Broglie worked on extensions of wave mechanics.
    • The Academie awarded him its Henri Poincare Medal in 1929 and the Albert I of Monaco Prize in 1932.
    • Other honours which he received included the Kalinga Prize which was awarded to him by UNESCO in 1952 for his efforts towards the understanding of modern physics by the general public.
    • Nobel Prize1929 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of de Broglie and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  10. Schramm biography
    • The list of awards and prizes he received shows the remarkable quality of his work.
    • Among the first prizes he received were the Anna and Lajos Erdos Prize in Mathematics in 1996, and the Salem Prize in 2001 (jointly with Stanislav Smirnov):- .
    • He then received the Loeve Prize in 2003.
    • Next he received the Henri Poincare Prize in 2003:- .
    • He was awarded the SIAM George Polya Prize in 2006 which he received jointly with Gregory Lawler and Wendelin Werner:- .
    • Prestigious awards continued to he presented to Scramm, for he received next the Ostrowski Prize in 2007.

  11. Berwick biography
    • Berwick sat Part II of the Mathematical Tripos in 1910, then submitted an essay entitled An illustration of the theory of relative corpora for the Smith's Prize in the following year.
    • He was awarded the second Smith's Prize and, also in 1911, his first paper was published.
    • His wishes were that a sum of money being given to the Society on his death to establish two prizes.
    • His widow Daisy May Berwick presented the Society with the money and the Council decided to name the two prizes the Senior Berwick Prize and the Junior Berwick Prize.
    • These prestigious prizes continue to be awarded by the London Mathematical Society.

  12. Heisenberg biography
    • In 1932 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for:- .
    • Heisenberg received many honours for his remarkable contributions in addition to the Nobel Prize for Physics.
    • Among the prizes he received was the Copernicus prize.
    • Nobel Prize1932 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Heisenberg and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  13. Erdos biography
    • Erdos did receive the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 1951 for his many papers on the theory of numbers, and in particular for the paper On a new method in elementary number theory which leads to an elementary proof of the prime number theorem published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 1949.
    • Erdos won many prizes including the Wolf Prize of 50 000 dollars in 1983.
    • most of the money he earned from lecturing at mathematics conferences, donating it to help students or as prizes for solving problems he had posed.
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory1951 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for number theory1951 .
    • Wolf Prize1983/4 .

  14. Mazya biography
    • An unexpected result was that the jury deemed the contest a failure and no prizes were awarded to anyone, including the winner.
    • Also in 1962 Maz'ya was awarded the prize for the best junior mathematician by the Leningrad Mathematical Society.
    • We mentioned above the prize he was awarded by the Leningrad Mathematical Society early in his career.
    • Other prizes include the Humboldt Research Prize (1999), the Verdaguer Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (2003), and the Celsius Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala (2004).
    • On 3 July 2009 the London Mathematical Society announced that they had awarded their Senior Whitehead Prize for 2009 to Maz'ya:- .
    • Young Mathematician prize1962 .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize2009 .

  15. Penrose biography
    • In the following year the book was awarded the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.
    • We mentioned the Science Book Prize (1990) which he received for The Emperor's New Mind but this is only one of many prizes.
    • Others include the Adams Prize from Cambridge University; the Wolf Foundation Prize for Physics (jointly with Stephen Hawking for their understanding of the universe): the Dannie Heinemann Prize from the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics; the Royal Society Royal Medal; the Dirac Medal and Medal of the British Institute of Physics; the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society; the Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society; and the Albert Einstein Prize and Medal of the Albert Einstein Society.
    • Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS has been awarded the Royal Society's Copley medal the world's oldest prize for scientific achievement for his exceptional contributions to geometry and mathematical physics.
    • LMS Naylor Prize1991 .

  16. Nash biography
    • In 1949, while studying for his doctorate, he wrote a paper which 45 years later was to win a Nobel prize for economics.
    • It might seem that someone who had just introduced ideas which would, one day, be considered worthy of a Nobel Prize would have no problems finding an academic post.
    • Nash was awarded (jointly with Harsanyi and Selten) the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Science for his work on game theory.
    • In 1999 he was awarded the Leroy P Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society:- .
    • Nobel Prize1994 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1999 .
    • Nobel prize winners .
    • Nobel prizes site (An autobiography of Nash and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  17. Maxwell biography
    • About the middle of his school career however he surprised his companions by suddenly becoming one of the most brilliant among them, gaining prizes and sometimes the highest prizes for scholarship, mathematics, and English verse.
    • But by sheer strength of intellect, though with the very minimum of knowledge how to use it to advantage under the conditions of the Examination, he obtained the position of Second Wrangler, and was bracketed equal with the Senior Wrangler, in the higher ordeal of the Smith's Prizes.
    • When the subject announced by St John's College Cambridge for the Adams Prize of 1857 was The Motion of Saturn's Rings Maxwell was immediately interested.
    • Maxwell decided to compete for the prize and his research at Aberdeen in his first two years was taken up with this topic.
    • Maxwell's essay won him the Adams Prize and Airy wrote:- .

  18. Lax Peter biography
    • In 2005 Lax was awarded the highly prestigious Abel Prize.
    • The Prize was awarded to Lax:- .
    • The Abel Prize citation which we quote, while still only covering a part of his work, still gives a good indication:- .
    • the Chauvenet Prize (Mathematical Association of America, 1974), .
    • the Norbert Wiener Prize (American Mathematical Society and Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1975), .
    • the Wolf Prize (The Wolf Foundation, 1987), .
    • the Leroy Steele Prize (American Mathematical Society, 1992), .
    • the Abel Prize (Norway, 2005).
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1974 .
    • AMS Wiener Prize1975 .
    • Wolf Prize1987 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1993 .
    • Abel Prize2005 .
    • SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service2006 .

  19. Kolmogorov biography
    • He received one of the first State Prizes to be awarded in 1941, the Lenin Prize in 1965, the Order of Lenin on six separate occasions, and the Lobachevsky Prize in 1987.
    • In addition to the prizes mentioned above, Kolmogorov was awarded the Balzan International Prize in 1962.
    • Wolf Prize1980 .

  20. Atiyah biography
    • Among the prizes that he has received are the Feltrinelli Prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 1981, the King Faisal International Prize for Science in 1987, the Benjamin Franklin Medal and the Nehru Medal.
    • In 2004 he and Isadore Singer were awarded the Neils Abel prize of £480 000 for their work on the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1961 .
    • Abel Prize2004 .
    • Abel Prize Committee (The Atiyah-Singer Index theorem --pdf) .

  21. Dirac biography
    • In 1930 Dirac published The principles of Quantum Mechanics and for this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933.
    • In the same year Dirac received the Nobel prize for physics which he shared with Schrodinger.
    • It is an interesting comment on Dirac's nature that his first thought was to turn down the prize on the grounds that he hated publicity.
    • However when it was pointed out to him that he would receive far more publicity if he turned down the prize, he accepted it.
    • Nobel Prize1933 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Dirac and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  22. Hirzebruch biography
    • He has been awarded many prizes: the Silver Medal from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (1950), the Wolf Prize for Mathematics (1988), the Lobachevsky Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences (1989), the Seki-Takakazu Prize of the Japanese Mathematical Society (1996), the Cothenius Gold Medal Leopoldina 1997, the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1997), the Albert Einstein Medal (1999), the Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2000), the Krupp-Wissenschaftspreiss (2000), the Helmholtz Medal of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences 2002, the Georg Cantor Medal of the German Mathematical Society (2004).
    • The citation for the 1988 Wolf Foundation Prize was awarded to Hirzebruch:- .
    • Wolf Prize1988 .
    • MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize1996 .

  23. Landau Lev biography
    • The work he did on the theory to explain why liquid helium was super-fluid earned him the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physics.
    • In addition to the Nobel Prize in 1962, he received the Fritz London Prize in 1960 and, in the same year, the Max Planck Medal.
    • Nobel Prize1962 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Lev Landau and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  24. Bohr Niels biography
    • Bohr is best known for the investigations of atomic structure referred to above and also for work on radiation, which won him the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics.
    • He gave a lecture on the work for which he was awarded the Prize on 11 December 1922 in Stockholm.
    • Bohr's son Aage also became a physicist and shared the Nobel prize for Physics in 1975.
    • Nobel Prize1922 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Bohr and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  25. Gale biography
    • Gale received many honours and prizes for his outstanding contributions.
    • In particular he was awarded the Lester Ford Prize 1979-80, and the John von Neumann Theory Prize, 1980.
    • The prestigious John von Neumann Theory Prize was awarded jointly to David Gale, Harold W Kuhn, and Albert W Tucker:- .
    • Kenneth Arrow, professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University who was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1972, wrote that Gale's [UC Berkeley News (18 March 2008).
    • In fact Alvin Roth, professor of economics at Harvard University, had nominated Gale for the Nobel Prize in economics.

  26. Oleinik biography
    • She received many prizes for her remarkable contributions: the Chebotarev Prize; the State Prize; the Lomonosov Prize; the Petrowsky Prize; and the Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

  27. Chandrasekhar biography
    • He had a role model in his paternal uncle Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman who went on to win the Nobel prize in 1930 for his 1928 discovery of Raman scattering and the Raman effect, which is a change in the wavelength of light occurring when a beam of light is deflected by molecules.
    • Many years later Chandra was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1983- .
    • Chandrasekhar received many honours for his outstanding contributions some of which, such as the Nobel prize for Physics in 1983, the Royal Society's Royal Medal of 1962 and their Copley Medal of 1984, we have mentioned above.
    • Nobel Prize1983 .
    • Nobel prizes site (An autobiography of Chandrasekhar and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  28. Lions Jacques-Louis biography
    • Among the prizes he won are the John Von Neumann Prize in 1986, the Prize of Japan in 1991, the Harvey Prize from Technion in 1991, the Daedalon Gold Medal for Science and Technology from Greece in 1991, and W T et Idalia Reid Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1998.
    • SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics1998 .
    • Lagrange Prize1999 .

  29. Sobolev biography
    • Sobolev became one of the first recipients of a Stalin prize (later called a State prize) in the first presentation of these prizes in 1941.
    • He was awarded many prizes, including three State Prizes and the 1988 M V Lomonosov Gold Medal from the USSR Academy of Sciences.

  30. Quine biography
    • Quine won many prizes and medals for his outstanding contributions.
    • These included the Murray Butler gold medal (1965), the F Polacky gold medal in Prague (1991), the Charles University gold medal in Prague (1993), the Rolf Schock Prize in Stockholm (1993), and the Kyoto Prize in Tokyo (1996).
    • The Kyoto Prize for Creative Arts and Moral Sciences focused on the field of philosophy and made the award to Quine as one of America's pre-eminent 20th century philosophers.
    • He must have collected far more prizes and honorary degrees than any other contemporary philosopher or than almost any other academic; but what he most rejoiced in collecting were the countries that he had visited.

  31. Mandelbrot biography
    • Mandelbrot has received numerous honours and prizes in recognition of his remarkable achievements.
    • In 1987 he was honoured with the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, receiving the Steinmetz Medal in 1988 and many more awards including the Legion d'Honneur in 1989, the Nevada Medal in 1991, the Wolf prize for physics in 1993 and the 2003 Japan Prize for Science and Technology.
    • A full list of his prizes and honours is available (as a download) at this link.

  32. Wiles biography
    • He was awarded the Schock Prize in Mathematics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Prix Fermat from the Universite Paul Sabatier.
    • In 1996 he received further awards included the Wolf Prize and was elected as a foreign member to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, receiving its mathematics prize.
    • In addition to the prizes and awards mentioned above, Wiles has continued to receive many honours for his outstanding work.
    • In the same year of 1998 he was awarded the King Faisal Prize and in the following year received the Clay Research Award.
    • He received the Pythagoras Award in Crotone, Italy, in 2004 and, in the following year, Wiles received the Shaw Prize.
    • Sir Run Run Shaw, a leader of the Hong Kong media industry, established this Prize in 2002.
    • The 2005 Shaw Prize for Mathematical Sciences was made to Wiles:- .
    • LMS Whitehead Prize1988 .
    • Rolf Schock Prize1995 .
    • Ostrowski Prize1995 .
    • Fermat Prize1995 .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory1997 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for number theory1997 .
    • Shaw Prize2005 .
    • Wolf Prize1995/6 .
    • AMS (The citation for the Cole prize) [registration required] .

  33. Thompson John biography
    • Both Thompson and Feit received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1965 when the thirteenth award was made to them for this their joint paper.
    • In addition to the Cole Prize from the American Mathematical Society and the Fields Medal in 1970 described above, he was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize from the London Mathematical Society in 1982, the Sylvester Medal from the Royal Society in 1985 and he received the Wolf Prize and the Poincare Prize in 1992.
    • In 2008 the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters awarded the Abel Prize to John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits:- .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra1965 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for algebra1965 .
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1982 .
    • Wolf Prize1992 .
    • Abel Prize2008 .

  34. Singer biography
    • In the citation for the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement which Singer received in 2001, his work on the Atiyah-Singer Index theorem is highlighted [15]:- .
    • In his reply to receiving the Steele Prize, Singer spoke of his collaboration with Michael Atiyah:- .
    • Among the many awards which Singer has received, in addition to the Steele Prize, we mention the Bocher Prize Memorial Prize from the American Mathematical Society (1969), the Eugene Wigner Medal (1988), the National Medal of Science (1983), the Award for Distinguished Public Service from the American Mathematical Society (1992), the Abel Prize (2004), and the James Rhyne Killian Faculty Achievement Award (2005).
    • The 2004 Abel Prize was a joint award to Atiyah and Singer:- .
    • AMS Bocher Prize1969 .
    • AMS Steele Prize2000 .
    • Abel Prize2004 .

  35. Calderon biography
    • In 1989 he was awarded the Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society (fundamental research work category) for this outstanding contribution.
    • The American Mathematical Society also awarded Calderon their Bocher Prize in 1979 and he had previously been American Mathematical Society Colloquium Lecturer in 1965 when he spoke in Ithaca on Singular Integrals.
    • These included the Provincia de Sante Fe Prize (1969), the Konex Prize (1983), the Union Carbide Prize (1984) and the Consagracion Nacional Prize (1989).
    • AMS Bocher Prize1979 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1989 .
    • Wolf Prize1989 .

  36. Chang biography
    • Perhaps Chang's greatest honour was the award of the 1995 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics.
    • The prize is awarded every two years to a woman who has made an outstanding contribution to mathematics research in the previous five years.
    • Chang received the prize at the American Mathematical Society meeting in San Francisco in January 1995.
    • The citation for the prize read:- .
    • The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize is awarded to Sun-Yung Alice Chang for her deep contributions to the study of partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds and in particular for her work on extremal problems in spectral geometry and the compactness of isospectral metrics within a fixed conformal class on a compact 3-manifold.
    • On receiving the prize Chang spoke about her work (see [Notices Amer.
    • It is an honor for me to receive the prize.
    • Since the Satter Prize is an award for women mathematicians, one cannot help but to reflect on the status of women in our profession now.
    • Chang has received many honours in addition to the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics which we described above.
    • She held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1999-2000 and served on the Steel Prize Selection Committee of the American Mathematical Society during 2001-2004.
    • AMS Satter Prize1995 .

  37. Serre biography
    • In 1995 he was awarded the Steele Prize for mathematical exposition and the citation for the award reads [Notices Amer.
    • It is difficult to decide on a single work by a mathematician of Jean-Pierre Serre's stature which is most deserving of the Steele Prize.
    • He was awarded the Prix Gaston Julia in 1970, the Balzan Prize in 1985, the Steele Prize, described above, from the American Mathematical Society in 1995 and the Wolf Prize in 2000.
    • In 2003 he was awarded the first Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.Article by: J J O'Connor and E F RobertsonClick on this link to see a list of the Glossary entries for this page .
    • AMS Steele Prize1995 .
    • Wolf Prize2000 .
    • Abel Prize2003 .

  38. Langlands biography
    • He received the Cole Prize in Number Theory from the American Mathematical Society in 1982 for his pioneering work on automorphic forms Eisenstein series, and product formulae.
    • More recently he shared the 1995-96 Wolf Prize in Mathematics with Wiles.
    • The Prize was awarded to Langlands for his:- .
    • CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize1980 .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory1982 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for number theory1982 .
    • AMS Steele Prize2005 .
    • Nemmers Prize2006 .
    • Shaw Prize2007 .
    • Wolf Prize1995/6 .

  39. Lang biography
    • Your famous theorem in Diophantine equations earned you the distinguished Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society.
    • You are an excellent and deeply caring teacher, and in honour of this several years ago you received the Dylon Hixon Prize for teaching in Yale College.
    • For example he was awarded the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1959 from the American Mathematical Society, the Prix Carriere in France in 1967, the Humboldt Award for research and teaching in 1984, and the Leroy P Steele Prize for mathematical exposition from the American Mathematical Society in 1999, and the Dylan Hixon '88 Prize for Teaching in the Sciences in 2004.
    • It is worth noting that although he accepted the Leroy P Steele Prize in 1999, he had in fact resigned from the American Mathematical Society in 1996 in a dispute about an article in the Notices.
    • He made it very plain in his acceptance speech for the prize that he did not wish his acceptance in any way to lessen the arguments he had with the Society.
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra1960 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1999 .

  40. Lorentz biography
    • Lorentz developed his mathematical theory of the electron for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1902.
    • The Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman, a student of Lorentz.
    • Nobel Prize1902 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Lorentz and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  41. Lions biography
    • He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and he was awarded prizes by the Academy, the Doistau-Blutet Foundation Prize in 1986 and the Ampere Prize in 1992.
    • He also received the IBM Prize in 1987 and the Philip Morris Prize in 1991.

  42. Kantorovich biography
    • Kantorovich was a joint winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for economics for his work on the optimal allocation of scarce resources.
    • 28(45), (1982), 50-57.',12)">12] is the autobiography which Kantorovich had to submit to the Nobel Prize committee who were considering him for the award.
    • Nobel Prize1975 .
    • Nobel prizes site (An autobiography of Kantorovich and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  43. Loyd biography
    • While still at school, Loyd won prizes for his chess problems.
    • The following problem won him first prize in a competition run by the New York Clipper and it was published in the paper on 11 October 1856.
    • He began submitting problems to Chess Monthly and he became the problem editor of the magazine in 1857 after winning first prize for the following problem.
    • Click HERE for the prize winning problem .
    • A prize of $1000, offered for the first correct solution to the problem, has never been claimed, although there are thousands of persons who say they have performed the required feat.

  44. Planck biography
    • Music was perhaps his best subject and he was awarded the school prize in catechism and good conduct almost every year.
    • Planck received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918 for his achievement.
    • Nobel Prize1918 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Planck and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  45. Tait biography
    • In 1846 he was placed first in the mathematics section of the Edinburgh Academical Club Prize which was no mean achievement given that he beat Lewis Campbell, who was placed second, and Maxwell who was placed third.
    • In 1847, Tait's final year at Edinburgh Academy, Maxwell had his revenge since he was placed first for the Edinburgh Academical Club Prize with Tait second.
    • He was also the first Smith's prizeman.
    • He won the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize and twice the Keith prize from that Society.

  46. Schrodinger biography
    • Soon after they arrived in Oxford, Schrodinger heard that, for his work on wave mechanics, he had been awarded the Nobel prize.
    • [Schrodinger] was even thinking of the possibility of receiving a second Nobel prize.
    • Nobel Prize1933 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Schrodinger and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  47. Davenport biography
    • He was awarded a Rayleigh Prize in 1930 but expressed disappointment at not being a Smith's Prizeman.
    • During his four years on the staff he received a number of honours including a fellowship of the Royal Society and the Adams Prize from the University of Cambridge, both in 1940.
    • He was President of the London Mathematical Society during 1957-59, and was awarded the Berwick Prize by that Society in 1954.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1954 .

  48. Kaplansky biography
    • Two years later, in 1989, the American Mathematical Society awarded Kaplansky their Steele Prize.
    • There are three Steele Prizes awarded for different achievements.
    • The citation for the prize gives an excellent summary of Kaplansky's many achievements.
    • CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize1968 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1989 .

  49. Einstein biography
    • Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 but not for relativity rather for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect.
    • In fact he was not present in December 1922 to receive the prize being on a voyage to Japan.
    • Nobel Prize1921 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Einstein and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  50. Galois biography
    • Galois was not involved and during 1824-25 his school record is good and he received several prizes.
    • The paper was sent to Fourier, the secretary of the Paris Academy, to be considered for the Grand Prize in mathematics.
    • Fourier died in April 1830 and Galois' paper was never subsequently found and so never considered for the prize.
    • However, he learnt in June that the prize of the Academy would be awarded the Prize jointly to Abel (posthumously) and to Jacobi, his own work never having been considered.

  51. Euler biography
    • In 1727 he published another article on reciprocal trajectories and submitted an entry for the 1727 Grand Prize of the Paris Academy on the best arrangement of masts on a ship.
    • The Prize of 1727 went to Bouguer, an expert on mathematics relating to ships, but Euler's essay won him second place which was a fine achievement for the young graduate.
    • By 1740 Euler had a very high reputation, having won the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy in 1738 and 1740.
    • On both occasions he shared the first prize with others.
    • His most outstanding works, for which he won many prizes from the Paris Academie des Sciences, are concerned with celestial mechanics, which especially attracted scientists at that time.

  52. Wigner biography
    • Wigner received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963.
    • He was awarded the United States Medal for Merit in 1946, the Enrico Fermi Prize in 1958, and the Atoms for Peace Award in 1960, the Medal of the Franklin Society, the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society, the George Washington Award of the American-Hungarian Studies Foundation (1964), the Semmelweiss Medal of the American-Hungarian Medical Association (1965), and the National Medal of Science (1969).
    • Nobel Prize1963 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Wigner and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  53. Mori biography
    • Before receiving the Fields Medal in 1990 he had already been awarded the Japan Mathematical Society's Yanaga Prize in 1983, the Chunichi Culture Prize in 1984.
    • In 1988, jointly with Y Kawamata, he received a Prize from the Japan Mathematical Society for:- .
    • In 1989 he received the Inoue Prize for:- .
    • The same year as he was awarded the Fields Medal, in 1990, Mori was awarded the Cole Prize in Algebra from the American Mathematical Society.
    • The committee unanimously recommends that the 1990 Cole Prize in Algebra be awarded to Shigefumi Mori for his outstanding work on the classification of algebraic varieties.
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra1990 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for algebra1990 .

  54. Black Fischer biography
    • In 1997, the Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded jointly to Myron Scholes (Fisher Black's co-author of the paper on option pricing) and to Robert C.
    • A Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously but Fischer Black would undoubtedly have been a joint winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Economics had he lived.
    • In their announcement of the 1997 Prize, the Nobel Committee paid tribute to Black's key role [ ',104)">104].
    • Sharpe (Nobel Prize for Economics, 1990) [Journal of Finance, 19(3), 425-442.',105)">105], of the celebrated Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) [Unpublished manuscript.',107)">107] and [Unpublished manuscript.',108)">108].
    • Paul Samuelson of MIT (Nobel Prize for Economics, 1970) had attacked the problem, from both theoretical and empirical points of view.
    • It now seems extraordinary that Black and Scholes had difficulty in getting their paper published (a paper that was to win a Nobel Prize).
    • Miller (Nobel Prize for Economics, 1990) and Eugene Fama they submitted their paper again to the Journal of Political Economy, who finally accepted it.

  55. Conway biography
    • Conway was awarded the Berwick Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 1971.
    • In 1987 Conway was awarded the Polya Prize of the London Mathematical Society.
    • More recently he was awarded the 1997-98 Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics from Northwestern University.
    • This Prize is awarded to mathematicians who display outstanding achievement in their discipline by making major contributions to new knowledge.
    • He was also awarded the Leroy P Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition by the American Mathematical Society, 2000, the Joseph Priestley Award from Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) in 2001, and awarded an Honorary DSc by the University of Liverpool in 2001.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1971 .
    • Nemmers Prize1998 .
    • AMS Steele Prize2000 .

  56. Deligne biography
    • In addition to the Fields Medal, Deligne was awarded the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1988:- .
    • For example he was awarded the Francois Deruyts prize by the Royal Belgium Academy of Science in June 1974, the Henri Poincare medal by the Paris Academy of Sciences in December 1974, and the Doctor A De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize by the Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1975.
    • Very recently Deligne received the 2004 Balzan Prize in Mathemtics awarded by the International Balzan Foundation:- .
    • Jacques Tits, as a member of the Balzan Prize committee, announced the prize on 7 September 2004 in Milan.
    • As winner of the Balzan Prize, Deligne received 1 million Swiss francs (about US$800,000), half of which would go to research projects involving young researchers in his field.
    • The prize ceremony took place on 18 November 2004 in Rome.
    • Wolf Prize2008 .

  57. Zariski biography
    • In 1981 Zariski was awarded the Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society for the cumulative influence of his total mathematical research.
    • The citation for the prize summarised Zariski's contributions to mathematics throughout his life [Notices Amer.
    • He was awarded many honours for his work in addition to the Steele Prize described above.
    • He was awarded the Cole Prize in Algebra from the American Mathematical Society in 1944 for four papers on algebraic varieties, two published in the American Journal of Mathematics in 1939 and 1940, and the other two in the Annals of Mathematics also one in 1939 and the second in 1940.
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra1944 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for algebra1944 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1981 .
    • Wolf Prize1981 .

  58. Bernoulli Daniel biography
    • He submitted his work on this to the Paris Academy and in 1725, the year he returned from Italy to Basel, he learnt that he had won the prize of the Paris Academy.
    • Daniel Bernoulli submitted an entry for the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy for 1734 giving an application of his ideas to astronomy.
    • This had unfortunate consequences since Daniel's father, Johann Bernoulli, also entered for the prize and their entries were declared joint winners of the Grand Prize.
    • The result of this episode of the prize of the Paris Academy had unhappy consequences for Daniel.
    • The 1737 prize of the Paris Academy also had a nautical theme, the best shape for a ship's anchor, and Daniel Bernoulli was again the joint winner of this prize, this time jointly with Poleni.
    • In total he won the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy 10 times, for topics in astronomy and nautical topics.

  59. Bott biography
    • Bott was awarded many honours, for example the Sloan Fellowship (1956-60), the American Mathematical Society Oswald Veblen Prize (1964), the Guggenheim Fellowship (1976), the National Medal of Science (1987), the American Mathematical Society Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1990), and the Wolf Prize (2000).
    • The Wolf Prize was awarded:- .
    • AMS Veblen Prize1964 .
    • CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize1983 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1990 .
    • Wolf Prize2000 .

  60. Young biography
    • Although many famous mathematicians who attended Cambridge failed to become First Wrangler, many of those who failed did become Smith's Prizemen.
    • However Young did not even submit an essay for this prize but submitted an essay for a theology prize instead.
    • He won the theology prize and he decided to remain at Cambridge earning money by privately coaching students for the mathematical tripos.

  61. Plemelj biography
    • The contributions he made to integral equations and potential theory were brought together in a work he published in 1911 for which he was awarded the Prince Jablonowski Prize.
    • This was a period during which he received many honours, for his book on potential theory not only led to him receiving the Prince Jablonowski Prize, which we mentioned above, but also the Richard Lieben Prize in 1912.
    • This latter prize was awarded to him in Vienna for:- .
    • Plemelj received many honours in addition to the Prince Jablonowski Prize and the Richard Lieben Prize which we mentioned above.
    • In 1954 he received the Presernova nagrada Prize and was elected to the Bavarian Academy in the same year.

  62. Thomson biography
    • Further examinations saw him become first Smith's prizeman and he was elected a fellow of Peterhouse.
    • He encouraged the best students by offering prizes.
    • Some prizes were awarded to the best student, a vote being organised among the students to determine the recipient.
    • There were also prizes which Thomson gave to the student that he considered most deserving.

  63. Born biography
    • Soon after he received his greatest honour when he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for his statistical studies of wave functions.
    • Nobel Prize1954 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Born and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  64. Kac biography
    • This is the famous paper Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum? and Kac received the Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America in 1968 for the :- .
    • In addition to the Chauvenet Prize (which in fact he won on two separate occasions), Kac was awarded the George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1978.
    • The citation for the fifth award of this prize, which is a joint prize of the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, was made:- .
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1950, 1968 .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize1978 .

  65. Wien biography
    • Over the next few years he carried out work of exceptional quality which led to the award of a Nobel Prize in physics but in 1890 his first priority was to work on an habilitation thesis [3]:- .
    • Wien received the 1911 Nobel Prize for his work on heat radiation.
    • In fact Lenard was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on cathode rays and his discovery of many of their properties.
    • Nobel Prize1911 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Wien and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  66. Daubechies biography
    • In fact she received her first major prize in 1984 when she was awarded the Louis Empain Prize for Physics.
    • This prestigious prize is awarded once every five years to a Belgium scientist on the basis of work done before age 29.
    • This important book led to her being awarded the Steele Prize for mathematical exposition by the American Mathematical Society in 1994.
    • The American Mathematical Society further honoured Daubechies in 1997 with the award of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics for:- .
    • She was awarded the Gold Medal of the Flemish Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Belgium (2005), and the ICIAM Pioneer Prize (2008).
    • AMS Steele Prize1994 .
    • AMS Satter Prize1997 .
    • Pioneer Prize2007 .

  67. Russell biography
    • He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
    • Nobel Prize1950 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A Biography of Russell his Nobel lecture and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  68. Wall biography
    • The Society has made him a number of awards to mark his fine mathematical achievements, including the award of their Junior Berwick Prize, their Whitehead Prize in 1976 and their Polya Prize in 1988.
    • The Whitehead Prize and the Polya Prize were awarded for his work on surgery on manifolds and L-theory.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1965 .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize1976 .

  69. Tinbergen biography
    • In 1969 he jointly won the first Nobel Prize for Economics for this first ever macroeconomic model.
    • Nobel Prize1969 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A CV of Tinbergen and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  70. Feynman biography
    • He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965, jointly with Schwinger and Tomonoga:- .
    • Nobel Prize1965 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Feynman and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  71. Mazur biography
    • As with many of the problems in the Scottish Book the proposer would offer a prize for their solution.
    • Prizes offered included wine, spirits, or a meal in Cambridge but Mazur offered a live goose as the prize for this particular problem.
    • Per Enflo showed in 1972 that the problem had a negative solution and, while in Warsaw lecturing on his solution, Mazur presented him with his prize, the live goose! .

  72. Airy biography
    • Despite this his performance was outstanding and he graduated as Senior Wrangler (the top First Class student) in 1823 and was a Smith's prizeman.
    • Woodhouse, who had left the Lucasian chair in 1822 to become Plumian Professor of Astronomy, was one of Airy's examiners for the Smith's prize, the other being Thomas Turton who had succeeded Woodhouse to the Lucasian chair.
    • Airy was an examiner for the Smith's Prize and gave lectures while holding the Lucasian Chair.
    • Year after year he criticised the Senate House papers and the Smith's Prize papers very severely, and conducted an interesting and acrimonious private correspondence with Professor Cayley on the same subject.

  73. Gorenstein biography
    • We quote from his response to the award of a Steele prize in 1989 given in [Notices Amer.
    • He also received the Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 1989.
    • There are three Steele Prizes awarded and Gorenstein received the award for expository mathematical writing at the American Mathematical Society Summer Meeting in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
    • AMS Steele Prize1989 .

  74. Macdonald William biography
    • Macdonald showed his outstanding abilities by gaining prizes in almost all the classes he took.
    • He was awarded the Miller prize, which was awarded for the best work by a student in their year, in 1870, 1871 and 1872.
    • He was also awarded the Gray Prize in 1872 for his essay on Spectrum Analysis and in the same year he was awarded the Arnott prize.

  75. Malcev biography
    • In 1946 he was awarded a State Prize for his work on Lie groups.
    • We mentioned some of the prizes he received above, such as the State Prize in 1946, but another important honour which he received in 1964 was a Lenin Prize for his series of papers on the applications of mathematical logic to algebra.

  76. Selten biography
    • For his work in game theory Selten was, jointly with Nash, awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Science .
    • Nobel Prize1994 .
    • Nobel prizes site (An autobiography of Selten and his Nobel prize presentation speech) .

  77. Chrystal biography
    • On 10 February 1875, Chrystal became second Smith's prizeman, the first Smith's prize being given to Burnside.
    • The examiner for the Smith's prizes was Stokes.

  78. Bourgain biography
    • This was awarded in 1979 and Bourgain received the Alumni Prize from the Belgium NSF.
    • He was awarded the Empain Prize by the Belgium NSF in 1983, and, in the same years, he also received the Salem Prize.
    • In 1985 Bourgain was awarded the highest science honour from Belgium, the Damry-Deleeuw-Bourlart Prize.
    • The French Academy of Sciences awarded Bourgain its Langevin Prize in 1985 and its highest award, the E Cartan Prize in 1990.
    • In 1991 he received an honorary degree from the Hebrew University and, in the same year, he was awarded the Ostrowski Prize from the Ostrowski Foundation in Switzerland.
    • Ostrowski Prize1991 .

  79. Bethe biography
    • It was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967.
    • Nobel Prize1967 .
    • Nobel prizes site (A biography of Bethe and his Nobel prize presentation) .

  80. Kummer biography
    • In 1831 Kummer was awarded a prize for a mathematical essay he wrote on a topic set by Scherk.
    • In the same year he was awarded his certificate to enable him to teach in schools and, on the strength of his prize winning essay, he was awarded a doctorate.
    • The Paris Academy of Sciences awarded Kummer the Grand Prize in 1857 for this work.
    • In fact the prize of 3000 francs was offered for a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but when no solution was forthcoming, even after extending the date, the Prize was given to Kummer even though he had not submitted an entry for the Prize.

  81. Lagrange biography
    • The Academie des Sciences in Paris announced its prize competition for 1764 in 1762.
    • Returning to Turin in early 1765, Lagrange entered, later that year, for the Academie des Sciences prize of 1766 on the orbits of the moons of Jupiter.
    • However, for 20 years Lagrange worked at Berlin, producing a steady stream of top quality papers and regularly winning the prize from the Academie des Sciences of Paris.
    • He shared the 1772 prize on the three body problem with Euler, won the prize for 1774, another one on the motion of the moon, and he won the 1780 prize on perturbations of the orbits of comets by the planets.

  82. Weil biography
    • In 1979 Weil was awarded the Wolf Prize and, in the following year, the American Mathematical Society awarded him their Steele Prize.
    • In 1994 he received the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation of Japan:- .
    • The citation for the Kyoto Prize reads:- .
    • Wolf Prize1979 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1980 .

  83. Iwasawa biography
    • He received the Asahi Prize (1959), the Prize of the Academy of Japan (1962), the Cole Prize from the American Mathematical Society (1962), and the Fujiwara Prize (1979).
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory1962 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for number theory1962 .

  84. Young Lai-Sang biography
    • In 1993 Young was honoured with the award of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize.
    • The citation for this prize reads:- .
    • Young's response to the presentation of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize was to thank Joan Birman for creating the prize and the committee who selected her which was chaired by the previous winner Dusa McDuff.
    • In 1993, the same year that she received the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize, Young lectured at the Real and complex dynamical systems meeting in Hillerod, Denmark.
    • AMS Satter Prize1993 .

  85. Donaldson biography
    • He received the Junior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society in 1985.
    • In 1991 Donaldson received the William Hopkins Prize from the Cambridge Philosophical Society and, the following year, the Royal Medal from the Royal Society.
    • He was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Polya prize in 1999 and more recently, the 2006 King Faisal Prize.
    • He also received the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1994:- .
    • In February 2006 he was awarded the King Faisal International Prize for science for:- .
    • In April 2008, he was awarded the Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics from Northwestern University.
    • The Prize was given for his:- .
    • In 2009 Donaldson, together with Clifford H Taubes, was awarded the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.
    • LMS Whitehead Prize1984 .
    • Shaw Prize2009 .

  86. Fourier biography
    • In 1783 he received the first prize for his study of Bossut's Mecanique en general.
    • The Institute set as a prize competition subject the propagation of heat in solid bodies for the 1811 mathematics prize.
    • Only one other entry was received and the committee set up to decide on the award of the prize, Lagrange, Laplace, Malus, Hauy and Legendre, awarded Fourier the prize.
    • Shortly after Fourier became Secretary, the Academie published his prize winning essay Theorie analytique de la chaleur in 1822.

  87. Barkla biography
    • The greatest honour given to Barkla was the award of a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1917:- .
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 was announced on 12 November 1918.
    • The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a Scientist.
    • It would be affectation on my part not to mention the monetary value of the prize; this is especially important at the present time, when rewards are given more than ever to those who can show the immediate practical results of their labours, and when those who seek knowledge and search after new methods are in danger of being left to pursue their course unrecognised and unheeded.
    • Nobel Prize1917 .
    • Other Web sitesNobel Prize .

  88. Lhuilier biography
    • He also submitted an entry for the prize topic proposed in 1784 by the Berlin Academy.
    • Lhuilier submitted the paper Exposition elementaire des principes des calculs superieurs and his essay won the prize and was published in Berlin in 1786.
    • The standard concepts and notation for derivatives, and the standard elementary theorems on limits which appear in an undergraduate calculus text today appear in a remarkably similar form in Lhuilier's prize winning essay.
    • The topic of limits was a particularly fortunate one for Lhuilier since he had been thinking about limits before the topic was ever proposed for the prize.
    • In that year an improved version of his prize-winning essay on limits was published in Latin in Tubingen.

  89. Routh biography
    • The prestigious Smith Prize was at that time decided by examination, and the prize was divided equally between them (the first time the prize had been awarded jointly).
    • His work on mechanics was particularly important and in 1877 he was awarded the Adams Prize for work on dynamic stability Treatise on the stability of a given state of motion, particularly steady motion.
    • In fact the impact of this prize winning work was very significant since Thomson and Tait rewrote for the second edition of their text Natural philosophy treatise the part dealing with equations of motion using Routh's developments.

  90. Dickson biography
    • The American Association for the Advancement of Science decided to set up a prize for the most major contribution to the advancement of science.
    • Dickson was the first recipient of the prize, being awarded $1,000 in 1924 for his work on the arithmetics of algebras.
    • He was also the first recipient of the Cole Prize for algebra awarded by the American Mathematical Society in 1928 for his book Algebren und ihre Zahlentheorie published in Zurich and Leipzig in 1927.
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra1928 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for algebra1928 .

  91. Hoyle biography
    • He was placed in the top ten when he took the Mathematical Tripos in 1936 and was awarded the Mayhew Prize as the best student in applied mathematics.
    • Continuing to study at Cambridge, his research was supervised by Rudolf Peierls and his career went from strength to strength with the award of the top Smith's Prize in 1938 and then, with Peierls and R H Fowler as referees, he was awarded a prestigious Goldsmith's Exhibition.
    • He received many honours including: the United Nations Kalinga Prize in 1968, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1968, the Bruce Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1970, the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1974, the Dag Hammarskjold Gold Medal, the Karl Schwartzchild Medal, the Balzan Prize in 1994, and the Crafoord Prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1997.

  92. Sturm biography
    • The Paris Academy had set a prize topic on the compressibility of water and Sturm, with his friend Colladon, decided to begin experiments on Lake Geneva with the aim of putting in an entry for the prize.
    • Despite completing their paper for the Grand Prix of the Academie des Sciences they did not win the prize; in fact none of the submissions was deemed good enough and the same topic was set again.
    • Colladon made further experiments on Lake Geneva and after revising their joint memoir they successfully won the prize.
    • The value of the prize was enough to allow Sturm and Colladon to continue their research in Paris.

  93. Hertz Gustav biography
    • However the work they had done led to their being jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1925.
    • After being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1925, Hertz gave his Nobel lecture on The results of the electron-impact tests in the light of Bohr's theory of atoms on 11 December 1926.
    • Hertz received many honours in addition to the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics.
    • As with the Nobel Prize, he received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society in 1951 jointly with James Franck.
    • Nobel Prize1925 .

  94. Chern biography
    • He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1975 and the Wolf Prize in 1983/84.
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1970 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1983 .
    • Shaw Prize2004 .
    • Wolf Prize1983/4 .

  95. Birkhoff biography
    • In 1923 the American Mathematical Society made the first award of the Bocher Memorial Prize to Birkhoff for his memoir, Dynamical systems with two degrees of freedom which he had published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in 1917.
    • Other honours which Birkhoff received include the Querini-Stampalia prize from the Royal Venice Institute of Science in 1917 for his paper The restricted problem of three bodies published in 1915, the annual prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1926, and the biennial prize from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome in 1935.
    • AMS Bocher Prize1923 .

  96. John biography
    • He was awarded the George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics (1973), and the Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society in 1984.
    • I am highly honoured by this award of a Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society.
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize1973 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1982 .

  97. Lewy biography
    • This work led Lewy to two later papers on the theory of functions of several complex variables for which he received the Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 1979.
    • We mentioned above that the American Mathematical Society awarded him its Steele Prize in 1979.
    • In 1986 he was awarded the prize of the Wolf Foundation along with Kodaira.
    • AMS Steele Prize1979 .
    • Wolf Prize1984/5 .

  98. Calderwood biography
    • Then in July 1914 she was awarded the Prize presented to the best Science scholar (which she resigned), the Prize presented to the best Arithmetician (not also the winner of the Stewart's College Club prize), which she also resigned, and the Corstorphine Prize presented to the best mathematician.
    • At Birmingham University there is a Calderwood Prize, named after Nora Calderwood, for the best student in algebra.

  99. Delaunay biography
    • Mme la Marquise de Laplace donated a new annual prize, the Laplace Prize, to be given to the student who was ranked top in his year at the Ecole Polytechnique.
    • Delaunay had graduated before the prize was instituted but Mme de Laplace requested that he become the first recipient of the prize which consisted of the complete works of Laplace.
    • Mme la Marquise de Laplace was delighted with the first winner of the prize and she called him "her eldest son".

  100. Tits biography
    • He also served on the committee awarding the Balzan Prize in 1985.
    • Among these we mention the Prix scientifique Interfacultataire L Empain (1955), the Wettrems Prize of the Royal Belgium Academy of Science (1958), the Prix decennal de mathematique from the Belgium government (1965), the Grand Prix of the French Academy of Sciences (1976), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1993), and the Cantor Medal from the German Mathematical Society (1996).
    • In 2008 the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters awarded the Abel Prize to John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits:- .
    • Wolf Prize1993 .
    • Abel Prize2008 .

  101. Henrici Peter biography
    • A Prize has been established to honour Henrici.
    • The notice for the prize states:- .
    • The Peter Henrici Prize is awarded jointly by Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule-Zurich and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
    • The prize is awarded for original contributions to applied analysis and numerical analysis and/or for exposition appropriate for applied mathematics and scientific computing.
    • This Prize is given to honor Peter Henrici who was such an eminent figure in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.

  102. Manin biography
    • These include the Moscow Mathematical Society Award (1963), the Lenin Prize (1967), the Brouwer Gold Medal (1987), the Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize (1994), the Rolf Schock Prize (1999), the King Faisal Prize for Mathematics (2002), and the Georg Cantor Medal of the German Mathematical Society (2002).
    • Nemmers Prize1994 .

  103. Cherry biography
    • in 1918 having won the Dixson scholarship for pure and applied mathematics, the Professor Wilson prize for mathematics and natural philosophy, and the Wyselaskie scholarship in mathematics.
    • In 1924 Cherry won the Smith prize for applied mathematics and was elected a fellow of Trinity College.
    • With the help of prizes and scholarships, whose attainment involved little effort for me, I have been practically self-supporting since the age of 17.

  104. Cooper biography
    • He graduated with a degree in mathematics and physics having won numerous prizes including the Governor-General's prize for Pure Mathematics, the Darter prize for Applied Mathematics and the Bartle Frere prize for History.
    • Again he won prizes and a distinction in the theory of functions [Bull.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1949 .

  105. Trudinger biography
    • On 24 November 1995 three prizes were awarded by the Institut Henri Poincare and the publisher Gauthier-Villars, with the support of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
    • Each prize:- .
    • In the nonlinear analysis section, the prize goes to N S Trudinger of the Australian National University for the paper "Isoperimetric inequalities for quermassintegrals".
    • AMS Steele Prize2008 .

  106. Kingman biography
    • In 1961 Kingman became a Fellow of Pembroke College, being a Smith's Prizeman in 1962.
    • He was awarded the Junior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 1967, the Guy medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society in 1981 and the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1983.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1967 .

  107. Poincare biography
    • Henri was described by his mathematics teacher as a "monster of mathematics" and he won first prizes in the concours general, a competition between the top pupils from all the Lycees across France.
    • Poincare was awarded the prize for a memoir he submitted on the 3-body problem in celestial mechanics.
    • He won numerous prizes, medals and awards.

  108. Clifford biography
    • William Clifford showed great promise at school where he won prizes in many different subjects.
    • He won not only prizes for mathematics but also a prize for a speech he delivered on Sir Walter Raleigh.

  109. Fields biography
    • A prize of 15,000 Canadian dollars is awarded with each Fields Medal, which is made of gold, and shows the head of Archimedes.
    • Berlin Germany (More information about the prizes) .
    • FAQ's in Mathematics (Why there is no Nobel prize in mathematics) .

  110. Batchelor biography
    • Batchelor was awarded the Adams Prize by the University of Cambridge in 1951.
    • In addition he won numerous prizes and medals for his outstanding work.
    • He was awarded the Agostinelli Prize by the Accademia Nazionale de Lincei in Rome in 1986, the Royal Medal from the Royal Society of London in 1988, the Timoshenko Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1988, and the Taylor Medal from the Society of Engineering Science in 1997.

  111. Freudenthal biography
    • In one such competition in 1944, Freudenthal's work, a novel, was awarded first prize.
    • Therefore, the novel was sent in by a friend who had to play, with considerable risk, the role of a prizewinner; at interviews dinners and speeches.
    • But the ruse succeeded and the prize money reached Freudenthal, a most welcome support during the last war year.

  112. Walker Arthur biography
    • He was also a strong supporter of the London Mathematical Society and was awarded the Junior Berwick Prize of that Society in 1947.
    • Unknown to most of his colleagues, he and his wife Phyllis were accomplished ballroom dancers, and he once surprised a friend by saying that he had won more prizes for dancing than he had for mathematics.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1947 .

  113. Todhunter biography
    • He obtained a BA from University College London in 1842 and then an MA in 1844 with a prize for the top mark in the examination.
    • He went to St John's College Cambridge, entering the College in 1844 and becoming senior wrangler and Smith's prizeman in 1848.
    • In addition to the fellowship of the Royal Society he served on its Council in 1874, the same year in which he was awarded the Adams Prize for his work Researches on the calculus of variations.

  114. Whittaker biography
    • Whittaker was elected as a fellow of Trinity College in 1896 and became first Smith's prizeman in 1897 for a work on pure mathematics, namely on uniform functions.
    • He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, awarded the Society's Gunning Prize in 1929, and served the Society as President for most of the years of World War II.
    • Whittaker RSE Gunning Prize .

  115. Hardy biography
    • But, as a result of coming top of his class, he had to go in front of the school to receive prizes: and that he could not bear.
    • Hardy was elected a fellow of Trinity in 1900 then, in 1901, he was awarded a Smith's prize jointly with J H Jeans 'with unspecified relative merit'.
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1932 .

  116. Orlicz biography
    • Orlicz was awarded many high state decorations, prizes as well as medals of scientific institutions and societies, including the Stefan Banach Prize of the Polish Mathematical Society (1948), the Golden Cross of Merit (1954), the Commander's Cross of Polonia Restituta Order (1958), Honorary Membership of the Polish Mathematical Society (1973), the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award (1973), Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1973), Order of Distinguished Teacher (1977), Waclaw Sierpinski Medal of the Warsaw University (1979), Medal of the Commission for National Education (1983) and the Individual State Prizes (second degree in 1952, first degree in 1966).

  117. Schmetterer biography
    • He received many prizes and honours, including the Boltzmann prize, the Schrodinger prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Medal of Merit Leopoldina as well as an honorary degree from the University of Clermont-Ferrand.

  118. Lighthill biography
    • Among other medals and prizes he was awarded are the Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1965, the Harvey Prize for Science and Technology, Israel Institute of Technology in 1981, and the Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in 1982.
    • LMS Naylor Prize1977 .

  119. Lalande biography
    • He made other forward looking moves too, such as stopping Latin citations for prize winners.
    • Delambre, who was at this time the Permanent Secretary to the Institut, tried hard to make Lalande bend to the Emperor's demands without being seen to undermine the highly prized intellectual freedom that members of the Institut enjoyed.
    • We should also mention that he instituted the Lalande Prize, also in the year 1802.

  120. Nekrasov biography
    • He was awarded the N E Zhukovsky Prize in 1922 for his work On smooth-form waves on the surface of a heavy liquid.
    • Several other works by Nekrasov were awarded prizes.
    • He won the State Prize of the U.S.S.R.

  121. Green Sandy biography
    • In the citation for the Senior Berwick Prize which Green was awarded by the London Mathematical Society in 1984 the work of this paper is highlighted:- .
    • We have mentioned above the award of the Senior Berwick Prize (1984) and the De Morgan Medal (2001) to Green.
    • Berwick Prizewinner1984 .

  122. Pars biography
    • and, in 1921, he was the First Smith's Prizeman at Cambridge.
    • His prize essay was entitled Vector and Tensor Fields and was in two parts.
    • Pars's first publications, influenced by Larmor and Eddington, were on relativity and were part of his prize essay.

  123. Fowler biography
    • He spent the next six years at Winchester where he became Prefect of Hall (Head of School) and won school prizes in mathematics and natural science.
    • In 1913 he was awarded a Rayleigh Prize in Mathematics.
    • This work continued in a series of papers through the 1920s leading to the Adams Prize of the University of Cambridge in 1923-24 and was published in 1929 as the seminal volume, Statistical Mechanics, which had a second edition, minus the astrophysical applications, published in 1936.

  124. Bass biography
    • For this outstanding book Bass was awarded the Van Amringe Prize from Columbia University in the year following its publication.
    • He has received many other honours and prizes, in addition to that for Algebraic K-theory, such as the Cole Prize in Algebra from the American Mathematical Society in 1975.
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra1975 .

  125. Sprague biography
    • Sprague was elected a Fellow of St John's College following his attainment, in 1853, of the position of Senior Wrangler and First Smith's Prizeman at Cambridge University (first place among those attaining first class honours in mathematics) [8].
    • The year before Sprague, in 1852, the Senior Wrangler and First Smith's Prizeman had been P G Tait (as well as the Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University and the founder of the mathematical theory of knots, Tait was a director of the Scottish Provident Institution, a life insurance company in Edinburgh) and the year after, in 1854, the world-famous physicist, Clerk Maxwell had been second Wrangler (Routh being the Senior), the two Smith's Prizes of 1854 being shared equally between these two eminent men.

  126. Zygmund biography
    • He also received prizes and awards such as the Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society, the award of Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation in 1972, and the National Medal of Science in 1986.
    • AMS Steele Prize1979 .

  127. Wu Wen-Tsun biography
    • He became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1956, receiving one of the three national prizes for natural sciences.
    • In 2006 he was awarded the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences (jointly with David Mumford):- .
    • Shaw Prize2006 .

  128. Smith biography
    • His first two papers were on geometry and, in 1868, he wrote Certain cubic and biquadratic problems which won him the Steiner prize of the Royal Academy of Berlin.
    • This Smith did but died before the prize was awarded.
    • After his death the Academy awarded two full prizes, one to Smith and one to Minkowski.

  129. Pontryagin biography
    • The following year an English translation appeared and, also in 1962, Pontryagin received the Lenin prize for his book.
    • In 1941 he was of one the first recipients of the Stalin prizes (later called the State Prizes).

  130. D'Ocagne biography
    • On 30 January 1922 he was elected to the Academie des Sciences, having twice been awarded prizes by the Academy, once in 1892 (the Leconte prize) for his work on nomography and another in 1894 (the Dalmont prize), for all of his mathematical work to that date.

  131. Bauer biography
    • In 1980 Bauer received the Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America.
    • The Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America voted to award the 1980 Chauvenet Prize to Professor Heinz Bauer for his paper "Approximation and Abstract Boundaries," which appeared in this Monthly in 1978.
    • The Chauvenet Prize is awarded for a noteworthy paper of an expository or survey nature published in English that comes within the range of profitable reading for members of the Association.
    • The paper for which Professor Bauer received the Chauvenet Prize discusses three famous theorems of P P Korovkin that concern uniform approximation of functions.

  132. Dantzig George biography
    • He then goes on to say that Kantorovich received the Nobel Prize for his contribution and expresses "outrage" that Dantzig did not.
    • Dantzig has received many honours including the Von Neumann Theory Prize in Operational Research in 1975; The National Medal of Science presented by the president of the United States in 1976; the National Academy of Sciences Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis in 1977; the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology from Technion, Israel, in 1985; the Silver Medal from the Operational Research Society of Britain in 1986; the Adolph Coors American Ingenuity Award Certificate of Recognition from the State of Virginia in 1989; and the Special Recognition Award from the Mathematical Programming Society in 1994.
    • The citation for The Harvey Prize reads:- .

  133. Levinson biography
    • I recall our talking about this decision in 1940, and how difficult is was to move into this new field, and how hard Norman worked over a period of two or three years before he felt that he had enough mastery to obtain substantial results in this field; but this mastery he did achieve, and his outstanding contributions to non-linear differential equations were recognised officially in 1954 when the American Mathematical Society awarded Norman the Bocher Prize.
    • For a paper on number theory Levinson received the 1971 Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America.
    • AMS Bocher Prize1953 .
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1971 .

  134. Chauvenet biography
    • One might imagine that getting up to scratch in Latin to meet the entrance requirement would have been difficult enough, but he achieved far more than just the minimum level for he studied classics at Yale as well as mathematics and was awarded first prize for Latin composition at the end of his first year of study.
    • Chauvenet is particularly remembered by mathematicians since the Mathematical Association of America created the Chauvenet Prize in 1925 to be awarded for mathematical exposition.
    • Coolidge, then president of the MAA, presented funds to establish the prize.
    • You can see a list of winners of the Chauvenet Prize.

  135. Macdonald biography
    • Entering Clare College, Cambridge, as a foundation scholar, he graduated as fourth Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1889 (meaning that he was ranked fourth among those obtaining a First Class degree), was awarded a fellowship at Clare in the following year and, in 1891, was awarded the second Smith's Prize.
    • His research changed direction, however, when in 1899 Cambridge University announced that the topic for the 1901 Adams Prize would be:- .
    • Macdonald submitted an essay Electric waves which won the 1901 Adams Prize and was published in the following year.
    • About the time that Macdonald published his prize winning essay on electric wave, Guglielmo Marconi was successful in the transmission of the first wireless signals across the Atlantic.

  136. De Giorgi biography
    • De Giorgi received many honours for his outstanding mathematical contributions including the Caccioppoli Prize in 1960, the National Prize of Accademia dei Lincei from the President of the Italian Republic in 1973, and the Wolf Prize from the President of the Israel Republic in 1990.
    • Wolf Prize 1990 .

  137. Dupre biography
    • He was awarded one half of the 3000 franc prize.
    • He certainly changed research topic following the prize announcement.
    • He entered for the Academy of Sciences' Bordin prize in 1866 with the same half success as his entry on number theory.
    • Again he was awarded one half of the prize with an honourable mention.

  138. Karlin biography
    • Karlin received many honours throughout his career including a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Sciences in 1973, the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1987, and the National Medal of Science in 1989.
    • The citation for the John von Neumann Theory Prize reads:- .
    • Samuel Karlin has been awarded the ORSA/TIMS John von Neumann Theory Prize for 1987 for his contributions to the theory of games, inventory theory, decision theory, birth-death and diffusion processes, total positivity and the theory of approximations.
    • As a tribute to this breadth and vitality, we award Samuel Karlin the John von Neumann Theory Prize.

  139. Borel biography
    • He also took first prize in the Concours General.
    • He was awarded the Grand Prix of the Academy of Sciences in 1898, he was awarded the Poncelet Prize in 1901, he received the Vaillant Prize in 1904, and the Petit d'Ormcy Prize in 1905.

  140. Morawetz biography
    • Then in 2004 she received the Leroy P Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society:- .
    • In 2006 Morawetz was awarded the Birkhoff Prize, a joint award of the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics:- .
    • It is a totally unthought of and a wonderful surprise to receive the Birkhoff Prize.
    • CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize1984 .
    • CMS Krieger-Nelson Prize1997 .
    • AMS Steele Prize2004 .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize2006 .

  141. Rankin biography
    • The research which Rankin undertook at this time, on the difference between two successive primes, won him the Rayleigh Prize in 1939.
    • Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1955, he received the Society's Keith Prize for his publications in 1961-63.
    • The London Mathematical Society awarded him their Senior Whitehead Prize in 1987 and the De Morgan Medal in 1998.
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize1987 .

  142. Whitney biography
    • Then in 1983 he received the Wolf Prize:- .
    • Two years later he was awarded the Steele Prize.
    • Wolf Prize1982 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1985 .

  143. Codazzi biography
    • The topic for the 1859 prize of the Academy was:- .
    • The 1859 Prize of the Academy of Sciences had three high quality entries.
    • All three pieces of work are important contributions to differential geometry but, although the manuscripts of Bour and Bonnet were published in Comptes-Rendus des seances de l'Academie des sciences fairly soon after the prize was awarded, Codazzi's entry was not published until 1883 (10 years after his death).
    • Codazzi's submission for the prize contained a result which gave necessary and sufficient conditions for one surface to be mapped to another.

  144. Mordell biography
    • For his Smith's Prize essay Mordell studied solutions of y2 = x3 + k, an equation which had been considered by Fermat.
    • Mordell was awarded the second Smith's Prize with his essay, and he went on to publish a long paper on this equation, now sometimes called Mordell's equation, in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society.
    • He had already won the De Morgan Medal of the Society in 1941 and had received its Senior Berwick Prize in 1946.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1946 .

  145. Ladyzhenskaya biography
    • In 1954, and again in 1961, she was awarded the First Prize of the Leningrad State University.
    • In 1969 she received the Chebyshev Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the State Prize of the USSR.
    • She was awarded the S V Kovalevsky prize in 1992, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn on 13 May 2002, and the Golden Lomonosov Medal, the Ioffe Medal, and the St Petersburg University Medal in 2003.

  146. Borel Armand biography
    • He received the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for lifelong contributions to mathematics in 1991.
    • Borel also received the Balzan prize in 1992:- .
    • In fact we learn much of Borel's view of mathematics in the reply he made on receiving the Balzan prize:- .
    • AMS Steele Prize1991 .

  147. Lifshitz biography
    • In 1954 I was awarded a State Prize, and in 1962 the Lenin Prize jointly with Lev Landau for our Course of Theoretical Physics.
    • The Academy of Sciences awarded me the Lomonosov Prize in 1958 and The Lev Landau Prize in 1974.

  148. Knuth biography
    • He commented afterwards that had he thought to use the apostrophe he could have found many more! His school benefited by receiving a television set as a prize.
    • He was the first recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1971; he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1973; in 1974 he won the Alan M Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975; in the same year he won the Lester R Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America; he was awarded the National Science Medal in 1979 (presented to him by President Carter); he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981; he was elected an honorary member of the IEEE in 1982 and awarded their Computer Pioneer Award in the same year; he was awarded the Steele Prize for Expository Writing from the American Mathematical Society in 1986; he was awarded the Franklin Medal in 1988; he was elected to the Academie des Sciences in 1992; he was awarded the Adelskold Medal from the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1994; he was awarded the John von Neumann Medal from the IEEE in 1995; and the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation in 1996.
    • AMS Steele Prize1986 .

  149. Hertz Heinrich biography
    • A prize had been announced by the Philosophy Faculty for the solution of an experimental problem concerning electrical inertia and Hertz was very keen to enter.
    • The prize had been proposed by Helmholtz and, despite Hertz's lack of experience, he realised his great potential and offered Hertz a room in his Physical Institute and considerable support in directing Hertz to the background literature.
    • He was awarded the Philosophy Faculty prize and gold medal in 1879.
    • Helmholtz now suggested that Hertz work on the prize topic proposed by him for the Berlin Academy of Sciences.

  150. Krein biography
    • Krein received many other honours, but perhaps the most prestigious award made to him was the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1982.
    • After the years of discrimination on account of being Jewish it must have been particularly pleasing to receive this Prize from Israel.
    • The citation for the prize summarises well the contribution that Krein made to mathematics:- .
    • Wolf Prize1982 .

  151. Bellman biography
    • In 1970 he was awarded the first Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, this being a joint prize of the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
    • Also in 1970 Carnegie-Mellon University awarded Bellman the first Dickson Prize and three years later he was appointed to the ALZA Distinguished Lectureship by the Biomedical Engineering Society.
    • AMS Wiener Prize1970 .

  152. Lefschetz biography
    • For his remarkable contributions during this period he was awarded the Prix Bordin by the Academie des Sciences in Paris in 1919 and the Bocher Memorial Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 1923 for his 1921 paper we mentioned above.
    • He received the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize from the Accademia dei Lincei in 1956.
    • AMS Bocher Prize1924 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1970 .

  153. Camus biography
    • The topic for the prize that year was the masts of ships.
    • Both Camus and Bouguer entered memoirs for the competition which were deemed worth of winning the prize and both the prize money and the award was split between the two.
    • Camus not only won a share of the prize, but he also became known to the Academie as a talented mathematician.

  154. Pieri biography
    • The first Lobachevsky Prize was awarded to Lie in 1897.
    • Pieri submitted an entry for the Lobachevsky Prize on the third time the Prize was offered.
    • He received an 'honourable mention', as did Barbarin, Lemoine and Study, while the Prize went to Hilbert for the 1903 edition of his Die Grundlagen der Geometrie.

  155. Kendall biography
    • He was also awarded the Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal for Biometric Science from Oxford University in 1974 and Princeton University awarded him their Wilks Prize in 1980.
    • He was the 56th president of the London Mathematical Society during 1972-74 and the London Mathematical Society awarded him their Whitehead Prize in 1980 and their De Morgan Medal in 1989.
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize1980 .

  156. Rota biography
    • Rota received the Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 1988.
    • The Prize citation singles out the 1964 paper On the Foundations of Combinatorial Theory as:- .
    • In addition to the Steele Prize mentioned above, he was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Service from the National Security Agency in 1992.
    • AMS Steele Prize1988 .

  157. Moser Jurgen biography
    • The American Mathematical Society awarded him their D George Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1968:- .
    • He was awarded the Georg Cantor Medal by the German Mathematical Society in 1992, and received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1994:- .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize1968 .
    • Wolf Prize1994/5 .

  158. McDuff biography
    • In 1991 she was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize of the American Mathematical Society.
    • The quotations we have given in this article are taken from the acceptance speech she gave on the occasion of the presentation of the Prize.
    • We give one further quote from her acceptance speech of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize concerning women in mathematics:- .
    • AMS Satter Prize1991 .

  159. Milnor biography
    • In August 1982 Milnor received the Leroy P Steele Prize:- .
    • AMS Steele Prize1982 .
    • Wolf Prize1989 .
    • AMS Steele Prize2004 .

  160. Adams Frank biography
    • The London Mathematical Society awarded him their junior Berwick Prize in 1963, and their senior Whitehead Prize in 1974.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1963 .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize1974 .

  161. Yau biography
    • In 1981 Yau was awarded The Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry:- .
    • The Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was awarded to Yau in 1994:- .
    • 41 (7) (1994), 794-796.',6)">6] sums up Yau's work to date which led to his being awarded the Crafoord Prize:- .
    • AMS Veblen Prize1981 .

  162. Minkowski biography
    • However the Academy of Sciences were unaware of Smith's contributions when the prize topic was set.
    • The decision was that the prize be shared between Minkowski and Smith but this was a stunning beginning to Minkowski's mathematical career.
    • On 2 April 1883 the Academy granted the Grand Prize in Mathematics jointly to the young Minkowski at the start of his career and the elderly Smith at the end of his.
    • Minkowski's doctoral thesis, submitted in 1885, was a continuation of this prize winning work involving his natural definition of the genus of a form.

  163. Stueckelberg biography
    • Hideki Yukawa received the Nobel prize in 1949 for giving a similar explanation of nuclear interactions.
    • In 1965 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P Feynman were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics:- .
    • After receiving the Nobel Prize, Feynman lectured at CERN to an audience which included Stueckelberg.
    • In 1982 Kenneth G Wilson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics:- .

  164. Lawson biography
    • At university Lawson showed great talent and was awarded the Carstairs Prize (awarded to the best mathematics student in each of the three years) in both 1889 and 1890, the Millar Prize (awarded to the best student in each year) in 1890, the Gray Prize (awarded for an essay on a prescribed subject) in both 1891 and 1892, and the Arnott Prize (awarded on examination in Natural Philosophy at the end of the session) in 1891.

  165. Kruskal Martin biography
    • He was awarded the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research in 2006.
    • The prize was awarded jointly to Kruskal and Gardner for the above mentioned Korteweg-de Vries paper.
    • In the same year he received the Dannie Heineman Prize in Mathematical Physics.
    • Maxwell Prize2003 .
    • AMS Steele Prize2006 .

  166. Nygaard biography
    • For example he was awarded the Norbert Wiener Prize in October 1990 from the American Association of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
    • Computerworld presented him with a prize in 1992 for:- .
    • In 1999 the co-inventors of SIMULA, Nygaard and Dahl, were awarded the Rosing Prize by the Norwegian Data Association:- .
    • The A M Turing Award carries a $25,000 prize.

  167. James biography
    • Other honours have been the Junior Berwick Prize from the London Mathematical Society in 1959 and the Senior Whitehead Prize from that Society in 1978.
    • celebrates the extraordinary contribution made by Jewish people in mathematics and physics, from the mathematician Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics, to distinguished nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize-winner Niels Bohr.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1959 .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize1978 .

  168. Leray biography
    • He was awarded the Malaxa prize in 1938, the Feltrinelli prize in 1971, the Wolf prize in 1979 and the M V Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1988.
    • Wolf Prize1979 .

  169. Erdelyi biography
    • However after winning prizes in a mathematics competition in his first year, he was persuaded to study mathematics.
    • He had been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1945, receiving their Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize in 1977, and elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin in 1953.

  170. Beurling biography
    • Among the prizes he was awarded we mention in particular the Swedish Academy of Sciences Prize in 1937 and again in 1946, the Celsius Gold Medal in 1961 (he was the first recipient), and the University of Yeshiva Science Award in 1963.

  171. Cole biography
    • He established the Frank Nelson Cole Prizes in algebra and number theory and today these are highly prestigious awards.
    • It was this money that he chose not to accept, but to return it to the Society to set up the prize.

  172. Fatou biography
    • The prize would be awarded for a study of iteration from a global point of view.
    • Given that the topic had been proposed for the prize, it is not surprising that another mathematician would also work on the topic, and indeed Julia also produced a long memoir developing the theory in a similar way to Fatou.
    • Fatou did not lose out completely, however, and even though he had not entered for the prize, the Academie des Sciences gave him an award for his outstanding paper on the topic.

  173. Harish-Chandra biography
    • He won the Cole prize from the American Mathematical Society in 1954 for his papers on representations of semisimple Lie algebras and groups, and particularly for his paper On some applications of the universal enveloping algebra of a semisimple Lie algebra which he had published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in 1951.
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra1954 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for algebra1954 .

  174. Chebyshev biography
    • The department of physics and mathematics in which Chebyshev studied announced a prize competition for the year 1840-41.
    • The paper was not published at the time (although it was published in the 1950s) and it was awarded only second prize in the competition rather than the Gold Medal it almost certainly deserved.
    • This work also received a prize from the Academy of Sciences.

  175. Yushkevich biography
    • He was awarded the Koyre Medal by the Academie internationale d'histoire des sciences in 1971, the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society of the USA in 1978 and the May Prize of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics in 1989, the Prize of the Akademie der Wissenschaft der DDR in 1978 and again in 1983, and the Prize of the Academie des Sciences de France in 1982.

  176. Pade biography
    • Three of the five submissions received a prize, with Pade receiving the first prize together with half the total prize money, with smaller amounts going to the submissions judged to be worthy of second and third place.

  177. Comrie biography
    • Comrie was awarded the Carstairs Prize (awarded to the best mathematics student in each of the three years) in 1892, the Gray Prize (awarded for an essay on a prescribed subject) in 1891, and the Arnott Prize (awarded on examination in Natural Philosophy at the end of the session) in 1892.

  178. Janiszewski biography
    • This paper both won for him the J Mianowski Foundation prize and also qualified him to teach at the University of Lvov.
    • donated for public education all the money he received for scientific prizes and an inheritance from his father.

  179. Kerr biography
    • He won prizes in Mathematics, Greek and Natural Philosophy.
    • At the end of six months I was awarded the first prize in the Junior section, and two years thereafter I won the gold medal for Mathematics and was declared dux of the school.

  180. Griffiths biography
    • He was awarded the LeRoy P Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society (1971), the Dannie Heineman Prize from the Gottingen Academy of Sciences (1979), and the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit (Grand-Cruz) in 2002.
    • AMS Steele Prize1971 .
    • Wolf Prize2008 .

  181. Douglas biography
    • In 1943 Douglas was awarded the Bocher Prize by the American Mathematical Society for his memoirs on the Plateau Problem.
    • He also published The analytic prolongation of a minimal surface across a straight line which gives a generalisation of some earlier results on minimal surfaces with a simpler proof, The higher topological form of Plateau's problem which compares the methods which Douglas used in the first two of his papers which won the Bocher Prize, and Minimal surfaces of higher topological structure.
    • AMS Bocher Prize1943 .

  182. Vandiver biography
    • Vandiver was awarded the Cole Prize in Number Theory by the American Mathematical Society in 1931:- .
    • Although the Cole Prize might be considered Vandiver's greatest distinction, we should also mention that he was vice-president of the American Mathematical Society in 1934-35 and was the Colloquium Lecturer at Ann Arbor in 1935 when he lectured on Fermat's Last Theorem.
    • AMS Cole Prize in number theory1931 .

  183. Dahlquist biography
    • In 1995, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, SIAM established the 'Germund Dahlquist Prize' to be awarded biennially:- .
    • He was awarded the Peter Henrici Prize in 1999.
    • Yesterday, the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics presented 'The 1999 Peter Henrici Prize' to Germund Dahlquist for his outstanding research and leadership in numerical analysis.

  184. Doob biography
    • He received several other prestigious awards for his outstanding achievements, in particular the National Medal of Science in 1979 and the Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 1984.
    • The Steele Prize was awarded at the summer meeting of the Society in Eugene for [Notices Amer.
    • AMS Steele Prize1984 .

  185. Maclaurin biography
    • It was certainly not the case that Maclaurin had been idle during his time away, for, while in France, he had been awarded a Grand Prize by the Academie des Sciences for his work on the impact of bodies.
    • In 1740 he was awarded a second prize from the Academie des Sciences in Paris, this time for a study of the tides.
    • This prize was jointly awarded to Maclaurin, Euler and Daniel Bernoulli, bracketing Maclaurin with the top two mathematicians of his day.

  186. Humbert Georges biography
    • His work was officially recognised when he was awarded the Poncelet Prize from the Academie des Sciences in Paris in 1891 and the prize from the French Mathematical Society in 1893.
    • It was as a direct consequence of his work on using abelian functions in geometry which won for him the 1892 Academie des Sciences prize for work on Kummer surfaces.

  187. McCowan biography
    • He received many awards in Session 1881-82 such as the First Prize in Engineering, the First Walker Prize for the Written Examination, and the First George Harvey Prize.

  188. Feigenbaum biography
    • In the same year that he was appointed to Rockefeller University he was awarded the Wolf Prize in physics.
    • The citation for the prize said that it was awarded to Feigenbaum:- .
    • The press release made at the time that he was awarded the prize, sums up nicely his contribution:- .

  189. Colenso biography
    • His talent for mathematics helped too, for he won prizes and scholarships to help with his finances.
    • He graduated as Second Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1836 and, in the same year, was Smith's prizeman.

  190. Hall biography
    • Hall was a great supporter of the London Mathematical Society, and he was awarded its Senior Berwick Prize (1958) and the De Morgan Medal and Larmor Prize in 1965.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1958 .

  191. Legendre biography
    • He then decided to enter for the 1782 prize on projectiles offered by the Berlin Academy.
    • His essay Recherches sur la trajectoire des projectiles dans les milieux resistants won the prize and launched Legendre on his research career.
    • He wrote to Laplace asking for more information about the prize winning young mathematician.

  192. Kuratowski biography
    • At the end of his first year Kuratowski was awarded the Class Prize in Mathematics.
    • Kuratowski was honoured with prizes and election to academies.

  193. Stokes biography
    • Clearly Stokes talent for mathematics was shown during his studies at Bristol College, for he won mathematics prizes and Dr Jerrard wrote to him (see [Memoir and scientific correspondence of the late Sir George Gabriel Stokes (2 vols.) (Cambridge, 1907).',4)">4]):- .
    • In 1841 Stokes graduated as Senior Wrangler (the top First Class degree) in the Mathematical Tripos and he was the first Smith's prizeman.

  194. Herschel biography
    • Following his graduation Herschel became first Smith's prizeman and was elected a fellow of St John's College.
    • The Paris Academy awarded him its Lalande Prize in 1825 and the Astronomical Society awarded him its Gold Medal the following year.

  195. Hodge biography
    • After gaining distinction in the Mathematical Tripos of 1925 he went on to win a Smith's Prize and spent a further year researching at Cambridge financed by a Ferguson scholarship.
    • For these contributions Hodge won the Adams Prize in 1937 and Weyl described this contribution as:- .
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1952 .

  196. Wattie James biography
    • After Wattie died in 1943 his daughters Nora Isabel Wattie MB ChB (Assistant Medical Officer in the Public Health Department in Glasgow), Mary F C Wattie (married name Grant) MA, Katherine B M Wattie (married name Cope) MA, and Patricia M Wattie (married name Espinasse) founded the Wattie Prize in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.
    • The prize is:- .
    • to commemorate the name of James Macpherson Wattie, their father, the prize is awarded annually to the best candidate in English Language in the English Honours examination, provided that his or her work shows distinction.

  197. Wiener Norbert biography
    • His work on generalised harmonic analysis led him to study Tauberian theorems in 1932 and his contributions on this topic won him the Bocher Prize in 1933.
    • He received the prize from the American Mathematical Society for his memoir Tauberian theorems published in Annals of Mathematics in the previous year.
    • AMS Bocher Prize1933 .

  198. Peres biography
    • On the research front he was awarded prizes from the Academie des Sciences in 1932, again in 1938 and for yet a third time in 1940.
    • Two years after he received this third prize he was elected to membership of the Academie.

  199. Appell biography
    • In 1885 he was awarded half of the Bordin Prize for solving Monge's problem:- .
    • When another prize was offered in 1889 to solve the problem:- .
    • The winner of this prize was Poincare.

  200. Castelnuovo biography
    • In 1901 Castelnuovo and Enriques had submitted their joint work for the Royal Prize in Mathematics awarded by the Accademia dei Lincei.
    • Veronese, Cerruti, Bianchi, Dini and D'Ovidio formed the committee which had to decide whether to award the prize.
    • Both received the prize in subsequent years; Castelnuovo in 1905 and Enriques in 1907.

  201. Sampson biography
    • In 1889 he was awarded the first Smith's prize by Cambridge and elected a fellow of St John's College in November 1890.
    • In 1915 he was awarded the Hopkins Prize of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and was elected President of the Royal Astronomical Society.
    • The Society also honoured him with the award of their Keith Prize 1919-21.

  202. Rutherford biography
    • Outstanding research contributions led to Rutherford being elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1934 and he received the Keith Prize from the Society for an outstanding series of papers he published in 1951-53.
    • In fact he received a posthumous prize from the Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, for they awarded him their Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for the papers he published over the period 1964-65.

  203. Littlewood biography
    • He became a fellow of the Trinity College in 1908, winning a Smith's prize in that year, then returning to Trinity in 1910 to fill the position left vacant when A N Whitehead was essentially forced out of his job.
    • We mentioned above that Littlewood was President of the London Mathematical Society, but that Society also honoured him with its De Morgan Medal in 1938 and its Senior Berwick Prize in 1960 for two papers which he wrote on celestial mechanics.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1960 .

  204. Ahlfors biography
    • The award of the first Fields medal, mentioned above, must rank as the most important but another great honour was the award of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1981.
    • Wolf Prize1981 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1982 .

  205. Puiseux biography
    • Victor received prizes in physics in 1836 then a mathematics prize in 1837, the year he graduated and entered Ecole Normale Superieure.

  206. Halphen biography
    • He received great honours and prizes for his work on these topics.
    • Then, in 1882, he won the Steiner Prize from the Berlin Academy of Sciences for his work on algebraic curves.

  207. Paley biography
    • He was Pemberton and Yeats prizeman, and Bladwin scholar and research scholar in 1927.
    • He won a Smith's Prize in 1930 and was elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

  208. Albert Abraham biography
    • For his papers on the construction of Riemann matrices published in the Annals of Mathematics in 1934 and 1935 Albert received the Cole prize in algebra from the American Mathematical Society in 1939.
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra1939 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for algebra1939 .

  209. Kaprekar biography
    • There he excelled, winning the Wrangler R P Paranjpe Mathematical Prize in 1927.
    • This prize was awarded for the best original mathematics produced by a student and it is certainly fitting that Kaprekar won this prize as he always showed great originality in the number theoretic questions he thought up.

  210. Hay biography
    • He had me get Wolfe's book on non-Euclidean geometry, which I found fascinating and which ultimately was the basis of the project I wrote as a senior for the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, in which I won third prize.
    • Also her third prize in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, again a result of Rosenbaum's encouragement and direction, was a vital component in her being awarded a scholarship to enable her to take a degree in mathematics at Swarthmore College.
    • Money was still tight while at College but Louise was able to earn money during the summer vacation, and again the Westinghouse prize helped her to find useful summer jobs.

  211. Frohlich biography
    • Further developments leading on from this paper led to Frohlich receiving the Senior Berwick Prize from the London Mathematical Society in 1976.
    • He was elected to the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 1982 and received the "Humboldt prize" of the Humboldt Foundation in 1992.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1976 .

  212. Jeans biography
    • Both Jeans and Hardy were awarded a Smith's prize with 'unspecified relative merit'.
    • In 1917 Jeans won the Adams Prize from the University of Cambridge for his essay entitled Problems of cosmogony and stellar dynamics.
    • He had studied compressible fluids in his Adams Prize essay.

  213. Carleman biography
    • When the latter was planning his prizes, he is said to have asked some mathematician:- .
    • If I would establish a prize for Mathematics, is it likely that Mittag-Leffler would one day have it? - Yes, it is.

  214. Keynes biography
    • As time went by he did begin to show more promise, however, and in 1894 he topped the class for the first time and received a prize for mathematics.
    • Keynes did well at Eton winning the Senior Mathematics Prize in 1899, and again in 1900.
    • He was President of the Cambridge Union [and] won the Members' English essay Prize for an essay on the political opinions of Burke ..

  215. Blades biography
    • After leaving university, Blades attended the Training College, where he was awarded the first prize in the final year.
    • His achievements had been outstanding and, through his education, he had been awarded the Kelland memorial prize, the Ramsay memorial prize, and six medals.

  216. Hawking biography
    • He continued to receive major honours such as the prestigious Wolf Prize in Physics in 1988.
    • In 1999 he received the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society:- .
    • LMS Naylor Prize1999 .

  217. Whewell biography
    • His mother had been a poet who had published poems in local papers and Whewell must have inherited his mother's poetic gifts since, in 1814, he won the Chancellor's prize for an epic poem he wrote entitled Boadicea.
    • He also excelled in the Mathematical Tripos graduating as second wrangler in January 1816 and then becoming second Smith's Prizeman.

  218. Neugebauer biography
    • Neugebauer received many awards, prizes, and honorary degrees.
    • He received the Balzan Prize in 1986.

  219. Kato biography
    • He received many honours for his contributions, perhaps the most prestigious of which was the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1980, from the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
    • 127 (2) (1987), 298-311.',4)">4] contains his acceptance speech for this prize.
    • AMS Wiener Prize1980 .

  220. Delsarte biography
    • He received the Victor Noury Foundation prize from the Academy of Sciences in 1935 in recognition of his outstanding contributions.
    • He was awarded the Vailland Prize by the Academy of Sciences in 1944 and in the same year he became head of mathematics at Nancy.
    • He was made Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1954, Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Academique in 1962, and received the Bordin Prize from the Academy of Sciences in 1964.

  221. Kirkman biography
    • On seeing that the Academie des Sciences of Paris were awarding a prize for the study of 'group theory' in 1860, Kirkman decided to enter.
    • The three submissions were praised but no prize awarded.
    • The paper, which is an abstract of his Grand Prize Memoir, gives a recursive method for compiling lists of transitive groups and a complete list of transitive groups of degree ≤ 10 is given.

  222. Fermi biography
    • Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938.
    • The award of the Nobel Prize proved a wonderful opportunity for the family to leave Italy and travel to the presentation ceremony in Stockholm, then go straight on to the United States.
    • Nobel Prize1938 .

  223. Blades Edward biography
    • After leaving university, Blades attended the Training College, where he was awarded the first prize in the final year.
    • His achievements had been outstanding and, through his education, he had been awarded the Kelland memorial prize, the Ramsay memorial prize, and six medals.

  224. Ince biography
    • He was a Smith's prizeman in 1917 but left to undertake war service.
    • The Society awarded him their Makdougall Brisbane prize, but sadly he died before he was able to receive the award.

  225. Bell biography
    • The American Mathematical Society awarded him the Bocher Prize in 1924 for his memoir, Arithmetical paraphrases which had appeared in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in 1921.
    • Although he wrote 250 research papers, including the one which received the Bocher Prize, Bell is best remembered for his books, and therefore as an historian of mathematics.
    • AMS Bocher Prize1924 .

  226. Smale biography
    • In addition to the Fields Medal described above, he was awarded the Veblen Prize for Geometry by the American Mathematical Society in 1966:- .
    • In addition to the prizes mentioned above, Smale has been awarded the Chauvenet Prize by the Mathematical Association of America in 1988 for his paper On the Efficiency of Algorithms in Analysis.
    • In the following year he was awarded the Von Neumann Award by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics who also presented him with their Jurgen Moser Prize in 2005.
    • Then in 2007 he was honoured with the award of the Wolf Prize:- .
    • AMS Veblen Prize1966 .
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1988 .
    • Wolf Prize2006/7 .

  227. Malus biography
    • In 1811 Malus served, along with Lagrange, Legendre, Laplace and Hauy, on the committee to decide on who to award the prize to for the best work on the propagation of heat in solid bodies.
    • They awarded the prize to Fourier.
    • Malus received many honours for his work, in particular he was awarded a prize from the Academie des Sciences in 1810 for his memoir on double refraction.

  228. Hill biography
    • In the same year he won first prize for his essay On the confrontation of the Earth in a competition which was run by Runckle's Mathematical Monthly.
    • He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences who awarded him their Damoiseau Prize in 1898, and to the Russian Academy of Sciences who presented him with their Schubert Prize (1905).

  229. Ikeda biography
    • He was awarded the TUBITAK Science Prize (1979), the Mustafa Parlar Foundation Science Prize (1993), and the Marmara Research Center Merit Prize (1994).

  230. Fuss biography
    • He made contributions to differential geometry and won a prize from the French Academy in 1778 for a paper on the motion of comets near some planet Recherche sur le derangement d'une comete qui passe pres d'une planete (see [Istor.-Astronom.
    • Fuss won other prizes from Sweden and Denmark.

  231. Turing biography
    • Despite producing unconventional answers, Turing did win almost every possible mathematics prize while at Sherborne.
    • In 1936 Turing was a Smith's Prizeman.

  232. Littlewood Dudley biography
    • Littlewood was a very successful mathematics undergraduate being awarded College prizes and the Yeats prize.

  233. Ljunggren biography
    • The journal presented a collection of problems and each year the Crown Prince Olav Prize was given to the pupil who gave the best solutions to these problems.
    • Ljunggren won the prize in his final year at secondary school.
    • Papers such as Fermat's problem by Oystein Ore and On the indeterminate equation x2 - Dy2 = 1 by Trygve Nagell were in the issue which contained the problems that he solved to win his prize and, through studying these and other papers, he was already interested in number theory before beginning his university course.

  234. Montroll biography
    • Montroll's work led to him receiving many honours and prizes.
    • His work on traffic flow led to him winning (jointly) the Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America in 1959.

  235. Larmor biography
    • In 1880 he graduated as Senior Wrangler (the top First Class student) and he was first Smith's prizeman.
    • Larmor wrote Aether and Matter in 1900 (renamed by Lamb Aether and no matter ) which was a winning entry for the Adams Prize at Cambridge in 1898.

  236. Adams biography
    • He began his undergraduate mathematics course in October 1839 and graduated as Senior Wrangler (ranked top of the First Class) four years later having, rather remarkably, won the first prize in Greek testament every year.
    • Also in 1843 he became first Smith's Prizeman and he became a Fellow of St John's College.

  237. Clairaut biography
    • Euler still felt he did not properly understand what Clairaut had done so he tried to tempt him to write it up properly by having the St Petersburg Academy to set the problem of the moon's apogee as the prize topic for 1752.
    • Clairaut improved his results when he used a different method in his prize winning paper submitted to the St Petersburg Academy for the 1762 prize.

  238. Eilenberg biography
    • In particular we should mention the Wolf Prize which he shared with Selberg in 1986 and his election to the National Academy of Sciences.
    • Wolf Prize1986 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1987 .

  239. Von Neumann biography
    • In 1938 the American Mathematical Society awarded the Bocher Prize to John von Neumann for his memoir Almost periodic functions and groups.
    • He was Colloquium Lecturer of the American Mathematical Society in 1937 and received the its Bocher Prize as mentioned above.
    • AMS Bocher Prize1938 .

  240. Turan biography
    • On his return to Hungary he was elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1948, and received the Kossuth Prize from the Hungarian government in the same year.
    • He received the Kossuth Prize from the Hungarian government for a second time in 1952.
    • He also received the Szele Prize from the Janos Bolyai Mathematical Society in 1975 for creating scientific schools.

  241. Ramanathan biography
    • He received a number of prizes including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, the Indian National Science Academy's Homi Bhabha Medal and the Padma Bhushan.

  242. Taylor Geoffrey biography
    • This contribution won him a Smith's Prize.
    • The following year he was appointed to a meteorology post, becoming Reader in Dynamical Meteorology, and his work on turbulence in the atmosphere led to his publication Turbulent motion in fluids which won the Adams Prize at Cambridge in 1915.
    • SIAM von Karman Prize1972 .

  243. Atkinson biography
    • Atkinson received many honours for his contributions including election to fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1967), election to fellowship in the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1975), and the McDougall- Brisbane Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for 1974-76 for his paper Limit-n criteria of integral type (1974).
    • He also received the Humboldt Prize of the German Government in 1992.
    • In August 1992, after returning from Europe where he was presented with the Humboldt Prize, Atkinson suffered a massive stroke.

  244. Wright biography
    • He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1937 and was awarded their Makdougall-Brisbane Prize in 1952:- .
    • He was elected to the London Mathematical Society on 12 December 1929 and was awarded their Senior Berwick Prize in 1978; at the time of his death he had been a member for 75 years.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1978 .

  245. Brauer biography
    • In 1949 Brauer was awarded the Cole Prize from the American Mathematical Society for his paper On Artin's L-series with general group characters which he published in the Annals of Mathematics in 1947.
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra1949 .
    • AMS Cole Prize for algebra1949 .

  246. Lorenz Edward biography
    • For example: elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1961); awarded the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award and the Carl Gustaf Rossby Research Medal (1969) both from the American Meteorological Society; awarded the Symons Memorial Gold Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society (1973); elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (United States) (1975); elected a Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences; elected a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1981); awarded the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1983):- .
    • In 1984 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Meteorological Society, then in 1991 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize of the Inamori Foundation (Japanese equivalent of the Nobel prize) for discovering deterministic chaos which has:- .

  247. Gleason biography
    • Gleason won the Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contribution to the solution of the problem.
    • It was, as was stated when the prize was presented to him:- .
    • In addition to the Newcomb Cleveland Prize mentioned above, he was awarded the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr Charles Y Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics, the Mathematical Association of America's most prestigious award, in 1996.

  248. Spitzer biography
    • He received many honours including: the Henry Norris Russell Prize from the American Astronomical Society (1953), the award of the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1973) and the Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1974).
    • He was awarded the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics by the American Physical Society (1975), and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1978).
    • In 1979 he received the National Medal of Science, then in 1985 the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for [2]:- .

  249. Wattie biography
    • After Wattie died in 1943 his daughters Nora Isabel Wattie MB ChB (Assistant Medical Officer in the Public Health Department in Glasgow), Mary F C Wattie (married name Grant) MA, Katherine B M Wattie (married name Cope) MA, and Patricia M Wattie (married name Espinasse) founded the Wattie Prize in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.
    • The prize is:- .
    • to commemorate the name of James Macpherson Wattie, their father, the prize is awarded annually to the best candidate in English Language in the English Honours examination, provided that his or her work shows distinction.

  250. Halmos biography
    • In 1983 he received the Steele Prize for exposition from the American Mathematical Society.
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1947 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1983 .

  251. Jack William biography
    • In the year after Jack's retirement, the William Jack Prize was founded in commemoration of his services to Glasgow University.
    • In commemoration of his fifty years of service as teacher of mathematics, a fund of three hundred pounds has been secured, the income of which will be known as the William Jack prize.
    • Let us note that MacRobert, who succeeded Gibson as professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University himself won the William Jack Prize in 1916.

  252. Plana biography
    • In 1818 Laplace proposed that the Academie des Sciences in Paris set up a prize to be awarded to whoever succeeded in constructing lunar tables based solely on the law of universal gravity.
    • In 1820 the prize was awarded to Carlini and Plana and to Damoiseau by a committee of which Laplace was a member.
    • After the exchanges, public and private, between Carlini-Plana and Laplace, the latter concluded that the results of the Italian astronomers and those arrived at by Damoiseau following the method of Laplace's Mecanique celeste were fairly close, and that the purpose of the Academie in establishing the prize had been reasonably fulfilled.

  253. Titchmarsh biography
    • Far from it, he took the examinations for a Prize Fellowship at Magdalen College Oxford, also in 1923, and, having won the Fellowship, he held it for seven years.
    • He served as President of the London Mathematical Society in 1945-47 and was awarded its De Morgan Medal in 1953 and its Berwick Prize.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1956 .

  254. D'Alembert biography
    • His work on this topic first appeared in an article which he submitted for the 1747 prize of the Prussian Academy Reflexions sur la cause generale des vents which indeed he won the prize.
    • When d'Alembert won the prize of the Prussian Academy of Sciences with his essay on winds he produced a work which Euler considered superior to that of Daniel Bernoulli.

  255. Rosenhain biography
    • He was awarded the prize in 1851 for his memoir Sur les Fonctions de Deux Variables et a Quatre Periodes, Qui Sont les Inverses des Integrales Ultra-elliptiques de la Premiere Classe.
    • Adolph Gopel independently solved the same problem but he did not submit his solution for the Paris Academy prize so basically they only received one solution to the problem.
    • It is impossible to be certain why Rosenhain never published anything other than his Academy Prize paper despite having shown outstanding mathematical abilities.

  256. Coates biography
    • The London Mathematical Society awarded Coates their Senior Whitehead Prize in 1997:- .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize1997 .

  257. Morse biography
    • In 1933 the American Mathematical Society awarded him the Bocher Prize for his memoir The foundations of a theory of the calculus of variations in the large in m-space published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in 1929 (which he shared with Norbert Wiener).
    • AMS Bocher Prize1933 .

  258. Smithies biography
    • He graduated in 1931 as the top mathematics student in his year, winning the Napier Medal, the Gadgil Prize, and a John Edward Baxter bursary which paid for two further years study at Cambridge.
    • He won the Rayleigh Prize in 1935 for an essay on differential equations of fractional order, and was awarded his doctorate for his thesis The Theory Of Linear Integral Equation which he submitted to the University of Cambridge in 1936.

  259. Hormander biography
    • Wolf Prize1988 .
    • AMS Steele Prize2006 .

  260. Hille biography
    • He had been appointed professor of general and inorganic chemistry in 1906 and he worked on the biochemistry of sugar and phosphates and he was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1929 for his work on enzymes in the fermentation of sugar.
    • In 1919 Hille was awarded the Mittag-Leffler prize for his outstanding contributions, and was given the right to teach at the University of Stockholm.

  261. Boersma biography
    • In 1956 Boersma wrote an essay On a function, which is a special case of Meijer's G-function which won a prize from the University of Groningen and began an interest in the G-function which was to last throughout his life.
    • In addition to the publication of his prize-winning essay, the year 1961 saw him publish two further papers Two formulas relating to elliptic integrals of the third kind and (with W Kamminga) Calculation of the volume of intersection of a sphere and a cylinder.

  262. Flato biography
    • In 1980 he was awarded the interdisciplinary Saintour Prize by the College de France.
    • He was a consultant for the Nobel Prize for physics from 1971 until his death.

  263. Bell John biography
    • In the last few years of his life he was awarded the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society, the Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics, and the Heineman Prize of the American Physical Society.
    • He was nominated for a Nobel Prize; if he had lived ten years longer he would certainly have received it.

  264. Koopmans biography
    • In this 1944 work he initiated the topic of operational research called 'activity analysis' for which he received (jointly with Kantorovich) the Nobel Prize in Economics for 1975.
    • His greatest honour was receiving the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1975.

  265. Sturm Rudolf biography
    • He continued to work on surfaces and, in 1864, he shared with Cremona the Steiner prize of the Berlin Academy for his investigations of surfaces.
    • The year after he took up the post in Bromberg he published Synthetische untersuchungen uber Flachen which collected together his prize winning results and his other work in the area.

  266. Jacobson biography
    • He received the Leroy P Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society in 1998.
    • AMS Steele Prize1998 .

  267. Killing biography
    • Killing was honoured with the award of the Lobachevsky Prize by the Kazan Physico-mathematical Society in 1900.
    • This was the second award made of the Prize, the first in 1897 going to Lie.

  268. Bessel biography
    • Bessel's work had now become known internationally and he was honoured with the award of the Lalande Prize from the Institut de France for his tables of refraction based on Bradley's observations.
    • Bessel's work in determining the constants of precession, nutation and aberration won him further honours, such as a prize from the Berlin Academy in 1815.

  269. Fox Leslie biography
    • An indication of the high regard he was held in by his friends and colleagues is the enthusiastic response to support the creation of a Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis.
    • The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications organises the award of the prize, setting topics for the competition which continues to attract entrants of the highest quality from around the world.

  270. Schafer biography
    • She had performed exceptionally well and in her third year had won the Crump prize for real analysis.
    • In 1990 the Association for Women in Mathematics established the Alice T Schafer Mathematics Prize in her honour.

  271. Cunningham biography
    • After graduating as Senior Wrangler in 1902 he worked for a Smith's prize.
    • He started work on a new topic submitting a winning entry on matrices for the Smith's prize of 1904.

  272. Higman biography
    • He was awarded the Berwick Prize from the London Mathematical Society in 1962 and the De Morgan Medal from that Society in 1974.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1962 .

  273. Mackey biography
    • A long time member of the American Mathematical Society, he was vice president in 1964-65 and received the Society's Steele Prize in 1975.
    • AMS Steele Prize1975 .

  274. Poncelet biography
    • These ideas were published by Poncelet in 1826 and were awarded a prize by the French government.
    • The prize, augmented by a further sum of money, was awarded for work in pure mathematics or mechanics by the Academy of Sciences from 1876.

  275. Davidov biography
    • Before leaving the topic of Davidov's two theses on fluids we note that the quality of these can be judged by the fact that they were both awarded the Demidov Prize by the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
    • One of Davidov's colleagues at the Moscow University was Nikolai Dmetrievich Brashman (who had himself been awarded the Demidov Prize fifteen years earlier).

  276. Mostowski biography
    • Mostowski received many honours: a Polish state prize (1952); corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1956); full member: (1963); Irzykowski Foundation Prize (1972); and member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences (1973).

  277. Kostrikin biography
    • Among the honours which were given to Kostrikin for his outstanding contributions we mention the State Prize of the USSR in 1968, election to corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of USSR in 1976, the Lomonosov Prize in 1997, his invitation to address the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm 1962 and also at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice 1970.

  278. Sundman biography
    • In 1913 the Academy of Sciences in Paris awarded Sundman their Pontecoulant prize for his outstanding work on this problem.
    • In fact the Academy was so impressed by his solution that, after receiving a report on his work from a committee headed by emile Picard, they decided to double the usual value of the prize in recognition of the brilliance of the work.

  279. Neumann Bernhard biography
    • He received the Wiskundig Genootschap te Amsterdam Prize in 1949, and the Adams Prize from the University of Cambridge.

  280. Lemaitre biography
    • Honours from several different sources came his way such as the Francqui Prize in 1934.
    • This prize, presented to Lemaitre by King Leopold III, was the highest scientific honour that Belgium could bestow.

  281. Bliss biography
    • He received many awards for his work including the first Chauvenet Prize in 1925 from the Mathematical Association of America for his article on Algebraic functions and their divisors.
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1925 .

  282. Lissajous biography
    • Lissajous was praised by his contemporaries for his work and awarded the Lacaze Prize in 1873 for his optical observation of vibration and, in particular, "for his beautiful experiments".
    • Perhaps it is entirely fair that "his beautiful experiments" were a major factor in the award of the prize since Lissajous figures had been investigated forty years earlier by Nathaniel Bowditch.

  283. Fredholm biography
    • Fredholm received many honours for his mathematical contributions, including the V A Wallmarks Prize for the theory of differential equations in 1903, the Poncelet Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 1908, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1909.

  284. Dieudonne biography
    • Dieudonne was elected to the Academy of Sciences (Paris) in 1968, received the Gaston Julia prize in 1966, and he was made an Officer of the Legion d'honneur.
    • AMS Steele Prize1971 .

  285. Brown Gavin biography
    • He was honoured by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society for his outstanding mathematical work in 1977 when they awarded him their Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize.
    • EMS Whittaker Prize1977 .

  286. Kleene biography
    • Among the awards and honours that Kleene received for his outstanding contributions we mention the Leroy P Steele Prize which he was awarded by the American Mathematical Society in 1983:- .
    • AMS Steele Prize1983 .

  287. Jonquieres biography
    • The committee which evaluated the entries decided to split the prize, but de Jonquieres' entry was considered the best and he received two-thirds of the prize.

  288. Hammer biography
    • For his outstanding contributions Hammer was awarded the George Tzitzeica prize of the Romanian Academy of Science in 1966.
    • As we mentioned above he was awarded the George Tzitzeica prize of the Romanian Academy of Science (1966), but he also received the Euler Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (1999).

  289. Iacob biography
    • He was awarded the prestigious mechanics prize Henri de Parville in 1940 by the Academy of Sciences in Paris.
    • His important book on fluid mechanics earned him the State Prize for the period 1951-52.

  290. Tutte biography
    • In 2001 Tutte received the $5,000 prize from the Centre de recherches mathematiques in Montreal and the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto.
    • CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize1971 .

  291. Tikhonov biography
    • Tikhonov's work on mathematical physics continued throughout the 1940s and he was awarded the State Prize for this work in 1953.
    • Tikhonov was awarded the Lenin Prize for his work on ill-posed problems in 1966.

  292. Koenigs biography
    • The Bordin Prize of 1890 was to be awarded for work on differential geometry; Koenigs won for his essay on geodesics.
    • He also received the Poncelet Prize in 1913 for his contributions to geometry and mechanics.

  293. Aleksandrov Aleksandr biography
    • In 1942 he received the State Prize for his work in geometry, then in 1946 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
    • In 1951 he received the international Lobachevsky Prize.

  294. Montgomery biography
    • He was awarded the Leroy P Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society in 1988 for his lasting impact on mathematics, particularly mathematics in America.
    • AMS Steele Prize1988 .

  295. Gentle biography
    • After matriculating at Edinburgh University, Gentle had an outstanding undergraduate career winning bursaries and prizes.
    • In addition to medals and prizes, he was awarded the Newton Bursary in Natural Philosophy, the Neil Arnott Scholarship, the Mackay Smith Scholarship, and the Nichol Foundation.

  296. Bonnet biography
    • In 1859 he submitted an important memoir for the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy.
    • The prize was .

  297. Bochner biography
    • He was American Mathematical Society Colloquium lecturer in 1956, was vice-President of the American Mathematical Society in 1957-58 and was awarded the Society's Leroy P Steele Prize in 1979.
    • AMS Steele Prize1979 .

  298. La Faille biography
    • He determined the longitude by studying the phases of the moon and put his solution forward for the prize offered by Spain for a solution to the longitude problem.
    • De la Faille supported van Langren's solution to the longitude problem but no decision was reached about awarding the prize [Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters (MIT Press, 2003), 339-340.',2)">2]:- .

  299. Petit biography
    • In 1818 Petit and Dulong won the Academy Prize for their work on the law of cooling but at this stage they had now yet discovered the Dulong-Petit law for which they are best known.
    • Their prize essay reported on their [Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).',1)">1]:- .

  300. Chree biography
    • In 1939, eleven years after his death, the Charles Chree Medal and Prize was instituted in his memory by his sister:- .
    • The medal is silver and accompanied by a certificate and prize of £1000.

  301. Love biography
    • He was elected to a fellowship at St John's College in 1886 and the following year won the first Smith's Prize.
    • His work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems in Geodynamics won for him the Adams Prize at Cambridge in 1911.

  302. MacLane biography
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1941 .
    • AMS Steele Prize1986 .

  303. Burkill biography
    • He then won a Smith's prize in 1923 for Functions of intervals and the problem of area.
    • He resumed his research in mathematics winning the Adams prize in 1948 for an essay on integrals and trigonometric series.

  304. Thurston biography
    • In 1976 his work on foliations led to his being awarded the Oswald Veblen Geometry Prize of the American Mathematical Society.
    • On 6 January 2005, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, Thurston was awarded the American Mathematical Society Book Prize for Three-dimensional geometry and topology.
    • A book that has played such an important and dynamic role in modern mathematics is eminently deserving of the AMS Book Prize.
    • AMS Veblen Prize1976 .

  305. Mitchell James biography
    • James Mitchell studied at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, where he had a highly successful career winning many prizes in a range of subjects.
    • He won medals or prizes in a wide range of subjects: mathematics, natural philosophy, Latin, Greek, logic, and psychology.

  306. Todd biography
    • He was supported by a research scholarship and, in 1930, he was awarded the highly prestigious Smith's Prize.
    • After an impressive prize winning record Todd hoped for a Research Fellowship at Trinity but he failed in three attempts, on one occasion losing out to Coxeter who won the Fellowship.

  307. Grassmann biography
    • Mobius suggested that he enter for the prize proposed by the Furstliche Jablonowski'schen Gesellschaft for entries which solved a problem, first proposed by Leibniz, to establish geometric characteristic without using metric properties.
    • The Ministry of Education asked Kummer for his opinion of Grassmann who read his prize winning essay Geometrische Analyse and reported that it contained:- .

  308. Ingham biography
    • An outstanding undergraduate career saw him awarded distinction in the Mathematical Tripos and win a Smith's prize and the highest honours.
    • For forty years he used a Sunbeam bicycle that he had won as a school prize.

  309. Schwartz biography
    • Schwartz has received a long list of prizes, medals and honours in addition to the Fields Medal.
    • He received prizes from the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1955, 1964 and 1972.

  310. Montel biography
    • The Grand Prix was won by Julia but Montel, who did not enter for the prize, was awarded a smaller monetary prize at the same time.

  311. Cohen biography
    • In 1964 he was awarded the Bocher Memorial Prize from the American Mathematical Society:- .
    • AMS Bocher Prize1964 .

  312. Carcavi biography
    • Pascal published a challenge under the name of Dettonville offering two prizes for solutions to these problems.
    • He lodged the prizes and his own solutions with Carcavi.

  313. Germain biography
    • The Institut de France set a prize competition with the following challenge: .
    • Germain's third attempt in the re-opened contest of 1815 was deemed worthy of the prize of a medal of one kilogram of gold, although deficiencies in its mathematical rigour remained.

  314. Siegel biography
    • He was awarded many honours, perhaps the most prestigious of which was the Wolf Prize in 1978.
    • Wolf Prize1978 .

  315. Hua biography
    • At this time Hua entertained doubts whether the Communist Party at home trusted him, and it came as an agreeable surprise to him to learn in Moscow that the Chinese government had agreed to a proposal by the Soviet government to award Hua a Stalin Prize.
    • Following Stalin's death the prize was discontinued, and Hua missed out; in view of later developments, he told me, he had a double reason to be satisfied! .

  316. Krasnosel'skii biography
    • Krasnosel'skii was awarded many honours for his outstanding contributions including the Andronov Prize from the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Humboldt Prize, and an honorary degree from the University of Rouen in France.

  317. Cremona biography
    • It was this work which won him the Steiner Prize for 1866, the prize being awarded jointly to Cremona and Rudolf Sturm.

  318. Bour biography
    • He received the mathematics prize of the Academie des Sciences in 1861 for a paper Theorie de la deformation des surfaces.
    • in line with the analogous studies of Bonnet and Codazzi, contained several theorems on ruled surfaces and minimal surfaces; but in its printed version this work does not include the test for the integration of the problem's equations in the case of surfaces of revolution, which had enabled Bour to surpass the other competitors for the Academy's grand prize.

  319. Delambre biography
    • The topic had been suggested by Laplace and Lalande with Delambre in mind, and the committee consisting of Dominique Cassini, Lalande and Mechain duly awarded him the prize, declaring him to be:- .
    • In 1809 Napoleon requested that the Academie des Sciences award a prize for the best scientific publication of the decade.

  320. Nevanlinna biography
    • Since 1982, an award, the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, is presented at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
    • The one prize per congress is for young mathematicians dealing with the mathematical aspects of information science.

  321. Gelfand biography
    • In 1989 he received the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation, an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.
    • In 2005 Gelfand received the Leroy P Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society for Lifetime Achievement:- .
    • Wolf Prize1978 .
    • AMS Steele Prize2005 .

  322. Bateman biography
    • Bateman was awarded a Smith's prize in 1905 for an essay on differential equations.
    • I made some use of the method of the inverse Laplace transformation in the Smith's prize essay and fellowship dissertation partly published in modified form in 1909 and 1910.

  323. Zeeman biography
    • He was awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 1982.
    • He is a past-President of the London Mathematical Society (1986-88) and received the Senior Whitehead Prize of the Society in 1982.
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize1982 .

  324. Fejer biography
    • In 1897 Fejer won a prize in one of the first mathematics competitions to be held in Hungary.
    • Although already world famous and warmly endorsed by Poincare on the occasion of the awarding of the Bolyai Prize, Fejer's appointment to a chair at the University had been opposed by anti-semites on the Faculty.

  325. Alfven biography
    • Alfven was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970.
    • On behalf of the Royal Academy of Science, it is my pleasure to congratulate you on your Nobel Prize in Physics.

  326. Chapman biography
    • His success is measured by the award of the first Smith's prize in 1913, and with this topic he began a research interest that he would continue through the rest of his life.
    • He received the Adams Prize in 1928 for an essay on geomagnetism.

  327. Sierpinski biography
    • In 1903 the Department of Mathematics and Physics offered a prize for the best essay from a student on Voronoy's contribution to number theory.
    • The results in the prize essay that Sierpinski wrote in 1904 were a major contribution to a famous problem on lattice points.

  328. Heyting biography
    • When the Dutch Mathematical Association announced a prize question in 1927 they gave Heyting an ideal topic on which to compete.
    • They asked for a formalisation of Brouwer's intuitionist theories and Heyting's outstanding essay was awarded the prize in 1928.

  329. Salem biography
    • After Salem died his wife established an international prize for outstanding contributions to Fourier series [Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).',1)">1]:- .
    • The list of those who have received the prize, first awarded in 1968, is impressive and testifies to the explosive activity in this area of mathematics.

  330. Brashman biography
    • Brashman wrote one of the best analytic geometry texts of his time, for which the Russian Academy of Sciences awarded him the entire Demidov Prize for 1836.
    • The following year his textbook on mechanics, covering statics and hydrostatics using a highly original presentation, again won him the whole of the Demidov Prize.

  331. Graffe biography
    • While in Gottingen, Graffe wrote a prize winning dissertation.
    • Graffe is best remembered for his method of numerical solution of algebraic equations, developed to answer a prize question of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.

  332. Zermelo biography
    • His health was poor but his position was helped by the award of a prize of 5000 marks for his major contributions to set theory.
    • The prize was awarded on the initiative of Hilbert and certainly it was an attempt to enable Zermelo rest and so to regain his health.

  333. Jeffery Ralph biography
    • The Canadian Mathematical Society honoured him by setting up the Jeffery-Williams Prize to recognize mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research.
    • The first award of the Prize was made in 1968.

  334. Whittaker John biography
    • by Edinburgh University and a Smith's Prize by Cambridge.
    • In many ways this work can be seen as Whittaker's greatest achievement and he was awarded the prestigious Adams Prize by Cambridge University for this work in 1949.

  335. Freedman biography
    • In addition to being awarded the Fields Medal in 1986, he also received the Veblen Prize from the American Mathematical Society in that year.
    • The citation for the Veblen Prize reads (see [Notices Amer.

  336. Wantzel biography
    • In 1831, the first prize of French dissertation from the College Charlemagne was awarded to him, and better yet, first prize in Latin dissertation, acquired in open contest, attested with splendour to the universality of Wantzel's aptitude.

  337. Mobius biography
    • He did however persuade Grassmann to submit work for a prize and, after Grassmann won the prize, Mobius did write a review of his winning entry in 1847.

  338. Mathieu Claude biography
    • Both Mathieu and Biot received a prize from the Academy of Sciences in 1809 for this highly accurate work, and in 1812 they received a second prize from the Academy for their achievements.

  339. Cohn biography
    • Among the various awards to Cohn have been the Lester R Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 1972 and the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 1974.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1974 .

  340. Cramer biography
    • Back in Geneva in 1729, Cramer was at work on an entry for the prize set by the Paris Academy for 1730, which was "Quelle est la cause de la figure elliptique des planetes et de la mobilite de leurs aphelies?" Cramer's entry was judged as the second best of those received by the Academy, the prize being won by Johann Bernoulli.

  341. Alexander biography
    • In the same year the American Mathematical Society awarded Alexander the Bocher Prize for his memoir, Combinatorial analysis situs published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society two years earlier.
    • AMS Bocher Prize1928 .

  342. Novikov biography
    • Novikov was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1957 for this outstanding piece of work.
    • In fact Boone published another proof of this result in 1957, the same year that Novikov received his prize.

  343. Kalmar biography
    • He received awards such as the Kossuth Prize in 1950 and the Hungarian State Prize in 1975.

  344. Vinogradov biography
    • He also received many other Soviet honours such as: Hero of the Soviet Union, on two occasions; Order of Lenin, on five occasions; Order of the Hammer and Sickle, on two occasions; the Order of the October Revolution; The Stalin Prize; and the Lenin Prize.

  345. Chevalley biography
    • Among these was the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society awarded to him in 1941 for his paper La theorie du corps de classes published in the Annals of Mathematics in 1940.
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory1941 .

  346. Bossut biography
    • He also did fine research and won Academy prizes for his work on mechanics applied to ships and on resistance to planetary motion.
    • The academies of Lyons and Toulouse awarded him prizes, and he was elected to the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences as well as the academies at Turin and Bologna.

  347. Spencer biography
    • He worked with M Schiffer and A C Schaeffer on these topics and the American Mathematical Society awarded its Bocher Memorial Prize for 1948 to Schaeffer and Spencer:- .
    • AMS Bocher Prize1948 .

  348. Fefferman biography
    • In 1992 Fefferman was awarded the Bergman Prize.
    • I am grateful to the selection committee for awarding me the Bergman Prize.
    • In 2008 he was awarded the Bocher Memorial Prize from the American Mathematical Society:- .

  349. Margulis biography
    • He showed great potential as a mathematician and the first important award which he won was during his time as a postgraduate student when he received the young mathematicians prize from the Moscow Mathematical Society in 1968.
    • In 1995 he received the Humboldt Prize and in 1996 he was honoured by election as a member of the Tata Institute of fundamental research.
    • Margulis has also been awarded the Lobachevsky International Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences and has been elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.
    • In 2005 he was awarded the Wolf Prize for Mathematics:- .
    • Wolf Prize2005 .

  350. Cohen Wim biography
    • While studying at the university, he received an award for a university prize question on 'plastic buckling of a beam'..
    • These include: the prestigious Akzo prize from the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Dutch Society of Sciences) (1986), an honorary doctorate from Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa (June 1988); elected an honorary member of the International Advisory Council of the Teletraffic Congresses (1988); and he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Organisation of Teletraffic Congresses (1997).

  351. Bauer Mihaly biography
    • The Society created the Gyula Konig Prize, named after Konig who had died in 1913.
    • It was fitting that Bauer, who was a student of Konig, should be the first recipient of the prize in 1922.

  352. Linnik biography
    • He received a State Prize in 1947 and a Lenin Prize in 1970.

  353. Kovalevskaya biography
    • In recognition of the brilliance of this work the prize money was raised from 3,000 to 5,000 francs.
    • Kovalevskaya's further research on this subject won a prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1889, and in the same year, on the initiative of Chebyshev, Kovalevskaya was elected a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

  354. MacMillan Chrystal biography
    • A fund was set up at Livingston House, Broadway, London, to provide an annual Chrystal Macmillan Prize for women students of Law and to support the societies with whose work she was particularly associated.
    • A memorial prize is awarded annually in her name by the society of the Middle Temple to the highest placed woman student in the bar's final examinations.

  355. Bers biography
    • The American Mathematical Society awarded him their Steele Prize in 1975.
    • AMS Steele Prize1975 .

  356. Eisenhart biography
    • He was a student at Gettysburg College from September 1892 and won the prize for excellence in his first year and the mathematics prize in his second year.

  357. Dyson biography
    • Less amusing perhaps is that he may well qualify for the "best physicist never to receive a Nobel Prize" award.
    • Department of Energy (1995), and the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (2000).

  358. Stewartson biography
    • As a result Stewartson completed Part II of the Tripos in two years, receiving the Drury Prize for his outstanding work.
    • He now continued his Tripos studies taking Part III of the Tripos, which he completed with distinction, and was awarded the Mayhew Prize.

  359. Mahler biography
    • The London Mathematical Society awarded him its Senior Berwick Prize in 1950 and its De Morgan Medal in 1971.
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1950 .

  360. Shannon biography
    • Among a long list of awards were the Alfred Nobel American Institute of American Engineers Award in 1940, the National Medal of Science in 1966, the Audio Engineering Society Gold Medal in 1985, and the Kyoto Prize in 1985.
    • It was the first time that organization, known for its annual Fellowship Prize, gave this particular award.

  361. Turnbull biography
    • He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge where he had a career of great distinction being placed Second Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos (meaning that he was ranked second among those being awarded a First Class degree) and, in 1909, he was the winner of the Smith's Prize.
    • He was also elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, receiving their Keith Medal and Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize.

  362. Weingarten biography
    • In fact the work was of such quality that Weingarten received a prize for work on the lines of curvature of a surface in 1857.
    • In 1864 he received a doctorate from the University of Halle for the same work which had won him the prize from the University of Berlin, but he had been far from idle over the years for he had published other important work on the theory of surfaces.

  363. Coulomb biography
    • This 1777 paper won Coulomb a share of the prize and it contained his first work on the torsion balance [Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).',1)">1]:- .
    • Because of this prize winning work, the authors of [Development of the science of friction - dry friction (Moscow, 1956), 51-69.',5)">5] write:- .

  364. Rohn biography
    • In 1884 the Jablonowski Society proposed as prize problem asking for essays on the general surface of order 4, extending the work of Schlafli, Klein and Zeuthen on cubic surfaces; they awarded the prize to Rohn for his essay in 1886.

  365. Bunyakovsky biography
    • A medal and prize was instituted by the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1875 for outstanding mathematical work.
    • For example Voronoy is one of the recipients of the prize.

  366. Milne biography
    • In 1922 Milne won a Smith's Prize at Cambridge for an essay on the darkening of the limb of a stellar disk.
    • Milne's books include Thermodynamics of the Stars (1930) which contains material relating to his Smith's Prize essay discussed above, Relativity, Gravitation and World-Structure (1935), and Kinematic Relativity (1948).

  367. Cartan Henri biography
    • He also received the Gold Medal of the National Centre for Scientific research (1976), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1980 and was made Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur in 1989.
    • Wolf Prize1980 .

  368. Krylov Aleksei biography
    • He became an honoured scientist and engineer of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1939 and, in 1943, was awarded the State Prize for his work compass theory and made a "hero of socialist labour".
    • Krylov married Elisaveta Dmitrievna Dranitsyna; their daughter Anna, later became Anna Kapitsa after marrying the famous physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa who the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978 for his research in magnetism and low-temperature physics.

  369. Renyi biography
    • The Janos Bolyai Mathematical Society awards the Kato Renyi Memorial Prize in her honour.
    • He was twice awarded the Kossuth Prize by the Hungarian Government, was elected vice-president of the International Statistical Institute, served as he was secretary of the Janos Bolyai Mathematical Society (1949-55), and was invited to serve on the editorial boards of eight journals.

  370. Simon biography
    • In 1994 he was awarded the Bocher Memorial Prize by the American Mathematical Society.
    • The 1994 Bocher Prize is awarded to Leon Simon for his profound contributions towards understanding the structure of singular sets for solutions of variational problems.

  371. Bennett biography
    • Bennett was awarded a First Class in the examination of 1891 and became the first Smith's Prizeman in the following year.

  372. Mendelsohn biography
    • Also while he was a student he became interested in magic and he became extremely good as can be seen from the fact that he took second prize at an International Brotherhood of Magicians contest.

  373. Warner biography
    • Although she achieved distinction in her years as an undergraduate, being awarded both college and university prizes, she only received a Second Class degree in mathematics when she graduated in 1953.

  374. Grinbergs biography
    • He won a prize which enabled him to travel to Lille in France in 1927 to complete his secondary education at the Lycee there.

  375. Rankine biography
    • Further papers read to the Institution of Civil Engineers were highly thought of and several won Rankine prizes.

  376. Morin Jean-Baptiste biography
    • Since Morin put forward his method for a longitude prize, a committee was set up by Cardinal Richelieu to evaluate it.

  377. Roy biography
    • That vision, with respect to which he was awake and which he carefully practiced in his life, can be aptly summarized by the poem of Tagore (Nobel Prize, 1913): .

  378. Briot biography
    • For his outstanding contributions to mathematics the Academie des Sciences in Paris awarded Briot their Poncelet Prize in 1882 shortly before he died.

  379. Jourdain biography
    • However he received an honourable mention in the competition for the Smith's prizes and he was awarded the Allen studentship for research in 1904.

  380. Goldie Alfred biography
    • Among the honours Goldie received for his outstanding contributions, we mention the Senior Berwick Prize from the London Mathematical Society in 1970.

  381. Hamming biography
    • In 1968 he was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and awarded the Turing Prize from the Association for Computing Machinery.

  382. Coulson biography
    • Winning a prize fellowship in 1934, he was awarded his PhD in 1936.

  383. Polkinghorne biography
    • In 2002 he was awarded the prestigious Templeton Prize; here is an extract from the citation:- .

  384. Zorn biography
    • At this stage, however, we should comment that his achievements were considered outstanding by the University of Hamburg and he was awarded a university prize.

  385. Wilczynski biography
    • Among the prizes which he won was one awarded by the Royal Belgium Academy of Sciences in 1909.

  386. Kelland biography
    • He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge and was coached privately by William Hopkins, graduating in 1834 as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman.

  387. Lebesgue biography
    • He also received a number of prizes including the Prix Houllevigue (1912), the Prix Poncelet (1914), the Prix Saintour (1917) and the Prix Petit d'Ormoy (1919).

  388. Schlesinger biography
    • In 1902 Schlesinger was elected as a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1909 he was honoured with the award of the Lobachevsky Prize.

  389. Crofton biography
    • He therefore received a prize in the Trinity College Fellowship Examination but could not take up a Fellowship.

  390. Voronoy biography
    • In fact both Voronoy's master's thesis and his doctoral thesis were of such high quality that they were awarded the Bunyakovsky prize by the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

  391. Morrison biography
    • His undergraduate career at university was of the same exceptional standard and he won the Neil Arnott Prize and was Vans Dunlop Scholar in Physics.

  392. Knott biography
    • The Society awarded him their Keith Prize for 1893-5.

  393. Birkhoff Garrett biography
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize1978 .

  394. Gauss biography
    • In 1822 Gauss won the Copenhagen University Prize with Theoria attractionis..

  395. Bloch biography
    • He saw it as his eugenic duty! The Academie awarded him the Becquerel Prize just before his death.

  396. Arf biography
    • Arf received many awards and prizes for his outstanding contributions to mathematics and for his most distinguished career including the Inonu award.

  397. Selberg biography
    • Wolf Prize1986 .

  398. G‰teaux biography
    • Five notes in 1913 and in 1914 in the Compes rendus of the Academy of Sciences and in the Rendiconti of the Accademia dei Lincei, contained results of such importance that the Academy of Sciences decided to award him the Francoeur Prize in 1916.

  399. Gohberg biography
    • Gohberg has received many awards for his outstanding work including the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in 1992 and an honorary degree from the Institute of Technology in Darmstadt in June 1997.

  400. Van Vleck biography
    • He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1977 for his work on the behaviour of electrons in magnetic, noncrystalline solid materials.

  401. Talbot biography
    • He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1817 and there he won prizes for Greek verse, and graduated with the classical medal in 1821 being twelfth wrangler in mathematics (that is he was placed twelfth in the ranked list of First Class students).

  402. Bouguer biography
    • Two years later he again won the grand prize, this time with an essay on observing the altitudes of stars at sea then, in 1731, he won his third Grand Prix from the Academie for his work on the observation of the magnetic declination at sea.

  403. Akhiezer biography
    • This important book was awarded the Chebyshev Prize in 1949.

  404. Minding biography
    • This work won Minding the Demidov prize of the St Petersburg Academy in 1861.

  405. Gordan biography
    • This was a fine piece of work and the dissertation, which employed methods devised by Lagrange and Jacobi, was awarded a prize by the Philosophy Faculty at Breslau.

  406. Penney biography
    • He won the Governor's Prize for Mathematics and graduated with First Class Honours in 1929.

  407. Baker biography
    • He was elected a Fellow of St John's College in 1889 and, in the same year, won the first Smith's prize.

  408. Matsushima biography
    • Among the honours that Matsushima received, perhaps the most prestigious was the Asahi Prize which was presented to him for his research on continuous groups in 1962.

  409. Dougall Charles biography
    • His performance in the written examinations in 1889-90 was such that he received the Prize which was open to students of both A Division and B Division.

  410. Frisi biography
    • He studied the motion of the earth and he was awarded a prize by the Berlin Academy for his outstanding memoir De moto diurno terrae.

  411. Madwar biography
    • He was awarded the State Prize of Appreciation (1966) and the State Medal (First Class Honour) (1968).

  412. Bouvard biography
    • His work on lunar theory based on over 4000 observations he had made, was a remarkable achievement and earned him a prize from the Institut de France in 1800.

  413. Enriques biography
    • In this area he also won fame with the joint award of the Bordin prize to him and Severi in 1907 for work on hyperelliptic surfaces.

  414. Clausius biography
    • He also received the Huygens Medal in 1870, the Poncelet Prize in 1883, and he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Wurzburg in 1882.

  415. Pascal biography
    • Pascal published a challenge offering two prizes for solutions to these problems to Wren, Laloubere, Leibniz, Huygens, Wallis, Fermat and several other mathematicians.

  416. Ritt biography
    • He showed great mathematical ability and in each year he was awarded the Belden Mathematical Prize.

  417. Ribenboim biography
    • Other honours have included: an honorary doctorate from the University of Caen, France, in 1979; receiving the Rosette of the Royal Society of Canada in 1982; and a prize for excellence in research from Queen's University in 1983.

  418. Zassenhaus biography
    • CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize1974 .

  419. West biography
    • John matriculated at the University of St Andrews in 1769 at the age of thirteen and was successful in his studies winning prizes for mathematics and physics.

  420. Picard Emile biography
    • Picard was awarded the Poncelet Prize in 1886 and the Grand Prix des Sciences Mathematiques in 1888.

  421. Johnson Barry biography
    • Johnson studied mathematics as his main subject but he was also extremely successful in his subsidiary subjects of physics and chemistry, winning a prize from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

  422. Bliss Nathaniel biography
    • Nevil Maskelyne was also trying to win the longitude prize using the lunar distance method.

  423. Clerke biography
    • In 1892 the Royal Institution awarded to her the Actonian Prize of one hundred guineas.

  424. Gibbs biography
    • In 1854 he entered Yale College where he won prizes for excellence in Latin and Mathematics.

  425. Vallee Poussin biography
    • One of his first papers in 1892 on differential equations was awarded a prize by the Belgium Academy.

  426. Stieltjes biography
    • His work on continued fractions had already been awarded the Ormoy Prize of the Academie des Sciences in 1893.

  427. Aleksandrov biography
    • He edited several mathematical journals, in particular the famous Soviet Journal Uspekhi Matematicheskikh Nauk, and he received many Soviet awards, including the Stalin Prize in 1943 and five Orders of Lenin.

  428. Wittich biography
    • Wittich allows neither reason nor advice, neither "prayers nor prizes" (as you say), to dissuade him from his enthusiasm for travelling.

  429. Amitsur biography
    • He received many honours including the Israel Prize for Exact Science (1953) and an honorary degree from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1990.

  430. Mannheim biography
    • He made numerous contributions to geometry and for his outstanding contributions to the subject he was awarded the Poncelet Prize of the Academie des Sciences in 1872.

  431. Conway Arthur biography
    • Arthur was educated at Loreto Convent where, like his sister, he showed considerable musical talent, winning a prize for his playing of the piano.

  432. Third biography
    • After his death the Dr J A Third prize was set up in the University of Aberdeen.

  433. Darwin biography
    • He also excelled at Cambridge, becoming Second Wrangler (meaning that he was ranked second among those awarded a First Class degree in the Mathematical Tripos) in 1868, becoming a Smith's Prizeman in the same year, and being elected to a fellowship at Trinity.

  434. Eckmann biography
    • He submitted a thesis which was judge quite outstanding, even relative to the high standards they had, and Eckmann was awarded the Kern Prize and silver medal for his work.

  435. Mercer biography
    • He was awarded a Smith's prize and, in 1909, he was elected a Fellow of Trinity.

  436. Heawood biography
    • In 1886 he was also awarded the Lady Herschell Prize.

  437. Greenhill biography
    • He was placed Second Wrangler in the final examinations of 1870 and shared the Smith's Prize with the First Wrangler, R Pendlebury.

  438. Haselgrove biography
    • As a research student, advised by Albert Ingham, he won the Smith's Prize in 1950 and became a Fellow of King's College and a Senior Assistant in Research (equivalent to a Senior Research Fellow elsewhere!) in the Mathematical Laboratory, which later became the Computing Laboratory.

  439. Bocher biography
    • It was an outstanding piece of work which received a university prize from Gottingen.

  440. Gateaux biography
    • As soon as August 1915, Hadamard began the necessary steps to obtain the attribution of one of the prizes of the Academy of Science to Gateaux.

  441. Smoluchowski biography
    • He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Glasgow in 1901, awarded the Haitnger's prize of the Vienna Academy of Sciences for his theoretical explanation of Brownian motion in 1908, was Wolfskehl Foundation lecturer at Gottingen in 1913 and again in 1916, and was awarded the Silber Edelweiss by the German and Austrian Alpine Society in 1916.

  442. Eotvos biography
    • The University of Gottingen announced as a prize topic a request for improved accuracy in checking the accepted fact that all bodies fell with the same acceleration in a vacuum.

  443. Fogels biography
    • He showed considerable mathematical talents at this school and, when he won a mathematics competition and was awarded a book on number theory as the prize, his interest grew still further.

  444. Krieger biography
    • In 1997 Cathleen Morawetz was awarded the Krieger-Nelson Prize Lectureship for Distinguished Research by Women in Mathematics by the Canadian Mathematical Society.

  445. Noether Emmy biography
    • In 1932 she also received, jointly with Artin, the Alfred Ackermann-Teubner Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Mathematical Knowledge.

  446. Hesse biography
    • He was also honoured with the award of the Steiner prize of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1872.

  447. Grothendieck biography
    • In contrast to his acceptance of the 1966 Fields Medal, Grothendieck declined the Crafoord Prize in 1988.

  448. Strong biography
    • However Strong was well capable of making up for the deficiency in his education in this area and was soon winning prizes in the subject.

  449. Ferrers biography
    • He was also the first Smith's prizeman in 1851 and, in the following year, was elected a fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

  450. Wang Yuan biography
    • He was also honoured with many prizes for his books promoting mathematical learning.

  451. Carmeli biography
    • He has also done important work at the University of Maryland and for the US Department of Defense as well as being involved in the nomination process for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

  452. McQuistan biography
    • Dougald McQuistan and Peter Ramsay, two students of the secondary department of Whitehill Public School, Glasgow, have been awarded by the Science and Art Department "Queen's Prizes" to mathematics.

  453. Rey Pastor biography
    • When Santiago Ramon y Cajal became the first Spaniard to win the Nobel Prize, together with Camillo Golgi in 1901 for their work on the structure of the nervous system, it seemed that the Spanish scientific community had finally awoken from a period of prolonged stagnation.

  454. Schubert Hans biography
    • He had previously been with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and was already a world leader having published his theory of quantum mechanics two years earlier; he received the Nobel prize for this work in 1932.

  455. Brown Thomas biography
    • In addition he was awarded the Welsh Mathematical Bursary in October 1911, the Kelland Prize in September 1912, and the Drummond Mathematical Scholarship in June 1915 to finance a further period of study.

  456. Schlafli biography
    • He received the Steiner Prize from the Berlin Academy in 1870 for his discovery of the 27 lines and the 36 double six on the general cubic surface.

  457. Plateau biography
    • He was awarded the quinquennial prize for Mathematics and physics twice, first in 1854 for his work over the period 1849-53, then for a second time in 1869 for his work over the period 1864-68.

  458. Gergonne biography
    • In 1813 Gergonne wrote a prize winning essay for the Bordeaux Academy Methods of synthesis and analysis in mathematics.

  459. Whitehead biography
    • The Royal Society of Edinburgh awarded him their James Scott Prize in 1922 (he was the first recipient).

  460. Rolle biography
    • Of equal importance with the financial benefits to which Rolle's prize led, was the fact that it brought him to the notice of Louvois who happened to be looking for someone to teach mathematics to one of his sons.

  461. Gray Marion biography
    • In June 1922 she had been awarded the Napier Medal and Gadgil Prize in Mathematics, and she won the John Edward Baxter Scholarship in Mathematics.

  462. Taussky-Todd biography
    • She received the Ford Prize from the Mathematical Association of America in 1971 for a paper on the sums of squares.

  463. Crelle biography
    • the recommendations Crelle wrote for prospective members of the Academy [and] the mathematical papers he read there, as well as the prize-problems he proposed and evaluated for the Academy ..

  464. Carnot biography
    • In 1778 he wrote Essai sur les machines en general to submit for a prize in a competition.

  465. Crawford biography
    • He completed his studies at King's College, Cambridge, where he won the Glynn and Richards Prizes and was Fifth Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1890 (meaning he was ranked fifth among the First Class students).

  466. Ball biography
    • In 1874, the year he sat the Tripos, he was also first Smith's prizeman, and in the following year he was elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

  467. Lerch biography
    • Lerch won the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy in 1900 with a work on number theory, a great honour for any mathematician and an even greater achievement for a mathematician from outside France.

  468. Eddington biography
    • Eddington was a Smith's prize winner for an essay on the proper motions of stars in 1907, and he was awarded a Trinity College Fellowship.

  469. Cowling biography
    • He was awarded the Johnson Memorial Prize by Oxford University in 1935 for original work in astronomy.

  470. Lopatynsky biography
    • He received the Ukraine State Prize in science and engineering in 1978.

  471. Ball Robert biography
    • Ball was an outstanding student at Trinity College, Dublin, winning gold medals and prizes, and his financial position was eased when he won a scholarship in 1860.

  472. Young Alfred biography
    • Others in the class were, I think, Cooper, now at Belfast; Broadbent, now at Greenwich; L H Thomas, who got a Smith's Prize and a Trinity Fellowship and went to America; Dirac certainly ..

  473. Clausen biography
    • He won the prize of the Copenhagen Academy for his work on determining the orbit of the comet of 1770.

  474. Lobachevsky biography
    • This method of numerical solution of algebraic equations, developed independently by Graffe to answer a prize question of the Berlin Academy, is today a particularly suitable method for using computers to solve such problems.

  475. Bombieri biography
    • Bombieri was awarded the Balzan International Prize in 1980.
    • In addition to the awards mentioned above, Bombieri received the Feltrinelli Prize in 1976, the Cavaliere di Gran Croce al Merito della Repubblica, Italy in 2002, and the Premio Internazionale Pitagora from the City of Crotone in Italy in 2006.
    • Jointly with Walter Gubler, Bombieri was awarded the 2008 Doob Prize at the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in San Diego in January 2008.
    • The citation for the prize reads:- .

  476. Couturat biography
    • He won prizes in most subjects he studied at the Lycee and he entered the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in 1887.

  477. De Rham biography
    • He received the Prize of the Marcel Benoist Foundation and of the City of Lausanne.

  478. Gray Andrew biography
    • His undergraduate years had been highly successful ones and he won prizes in natural philosophy in session 1874-5, and in mathematics in session 1875-6.

  479. Infeld biography
    • It was a great prize for Canada's scientific community when, 10 years earlier, Dr Infeld left the United States to come north.

  480. Rudin biography
    • First, however, let us note that others had recognised her accomplishments long before Wisconsin for, in 1963, the Mathematical Society of the Netherlands awarded her its Prize of Nieuwe Archief voor Wiskunk.

  481. Darwin C G biography
    • He was awarded the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize 1932-6 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

  482. Shoda biography
    • In 1949 Shoda was awarded the Japan Academy Prize in recognition of his fine achievements.

  483. Hopf Eberhard biography
    • AMS Steele Prize1981 .

  484. Tartaglia biography
    • Tartaglia did not take his prize for winning from Fior, however, the honour of winning was enough.

  485. Lanczos biography
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1960 .

  486. Blackwell biography
    • He received the John von Neumann Theory Prize from the Operations Research Society of America in 1979 for his work in dynamic programming and the R A Fisher Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies in 1986.

  487. Chaplygin biography
    • In 1893 he received the Brashman Prize for a long article on the movement of a solid body in a liquid.

  488. Maddison biography
    • Her paper On certain factors of c- and p- discriminants and their relations to fixed points in the family of curves which she published in the Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics was based on her doctoral dissertation was awarded the Gambel Prize.

  489. Clarke Joan biography
    • In 1939 Clarke was awarded the distinguished Philippa Fawcett Prize and in 1939-1940 the Helen Gladstone Scholarship.

  490. Dixon Arthur biography
    • Arthur Dixon won a prize fellowship to Merton College, Oxford, where he was appointed in 1891.

  491. Thompson D'Arcy biography
    • There he won the prize for Classics, Greek Testament, Mathematics and Modern Languages in his final year at school.

  492. Bolzano biography
    • My special pleasure in mathematics rested therefore particularly on its purely speculative parts, in other words I prized only that part of mathematics which was at the same time philosophy.

  493. Newcomb biography
    • He was elected an honorary member of most of the major scientific societies of the world and received many awards and prizes for his work.

  494. Boscovich biography
    • The prize was given to Euler but Boscovich had received an honourable mention.

  495. Artin biography
    • Artin was honoured by the award of the American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize in number theory.

  496. Levy Paul biography
    • Paul attended the Lycee Saint Louis in Paris and he achieved outstanding success winning prizes not only in mathematics but also in Greek, chemistry and physics.

  497. Beatty biography
    • One of his students, Walter Kohn, who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the density-functional theory, expressed heartfelt appreciation to the Dean who in 1942 helped Kohn to enrol in the Mathematics Department at the University.

  498. Hahn biography
    • Hahn received many honours for his achievements including the Lieban Prize in 1921.

  499. Fasenmyer biography
    • The joint publication by Wilf and Zeilberger of Rational functions certify combinatorial identities in 1990 led to them being awarded the Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society.

  500. Novikov Sergi biography
    • In 1981 he became a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, receiving the Lobachevsky Prize of the Academy in the same year.
    • In 2005 Novikov was awarded the Wolf Prize:- .
    • Wolf Prize2005 .

  501. Uhlenbeck biography
    • He was awarded the Planck Medal in 1965, the Lorentz Medal of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 1970, the National Medal of Science from the United States in 1977, and the Woolf Prize for Physics in 1979.

  502. Atwood biography
    • He was elected to a scholarship on 2 May of the following year, graduating as third Wrangler (ranked third among the First Class students) in the mathematical Tripos of 1769 and was first Smith's prizeman in the same year.

  503. De Bruijn biography
    • The work on the Automath project was the main motivation for this case); Honorary Member of the Dutch Mathematical Society (Wiskundig Genootschap) since 1988; AKZO Prize 1991; and in 2003 the Lifetime Achievement Award Nederlandse Vereniging v.

  504. Karman biography
    • In the year that Karman completed his education at the Minta Gymnasium he won the Eotvos Prize for the best student in mathematics and science in the whole of Hungary.

  505. Pearson Egon biography
    • He had been awarded the Weldon prize and medal in 1935, mainly for his work with Neyman, but despite having Neyman as a colleague, Pearson's efforts began to be directed towards revising his father's two volume work Tables for Statisticians and Biometricians.

  506. Miller biography
    • He was honoured with the award of a prize by the Cracow Academy of Sciences.

  507. Zelmanov biography
    • He received the College de France Medal in January 1992 and the Andre Aizenstadt Prize in May 1996.

  508. Peddie biography
    • He was awarded the Society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for 1896-8 .

  509. Benjamin biography
    • He received the L H Moody Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1966, the William Hopkins Prize from the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1970, a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 1992, and was elected to the Academie des Sciences of Paris in 1992.

  510. Pairman biography
    • She also won the George Watson Higher Bursary of £80 and the Special Prize for Mathematics.

  511. Barnes biography
    • In the following year he was awarded the first Smith's Prize and was duly elected to a Trinity Fellowship.

  512. Jordan biography
    • For this work he was awarded the Poncelet Prize of the Academie des Sciences.

  513. Muir biography
    • He was also awarded the Gunning-Victoria Prize for scientific contributions in 1916.

  514. Peacock biography
    • He also won the second Smith's prize.

  515. Eratosthenes biography
    • On the latter ground he was called Beta, and another nickname applied to him, Pentathlos, has the same implication, representing as it does an all-round athlete who was not the first runner or wrestler but took the second prize in these contests as well as others.

  516. Whiteside biography
    • He then had to make a rapid decision on the area to choose and having a "devouring interest" in mathematics enhanced by his enjoyment of writing a prize-winning essay on The History of Mathematics when at school, he decided on the spur of the moment to change his research topic to the history of mathematics.

  517. Rado Richard biography
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1972 .

  518. Mayer Tobias biography
    • James Bradley, who had like Mayer, put a great deal of work into the production of lunar tables told John Harrison that he and Mayer would have shared the £10,000 prize money but for Harrison's "blasted watch." .

  519. Albanese biography
    • Then he entered the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa as a student of mathematics and received his doctorate in 1913 having the distinction of receiving the 'Ulisse Dini' prize for his doctoral dissertation Sistemi continui di curve sopra una superficie algebrica (Continuous systems of curves on an algebraic surface).

  520. Gupta biography
    • For example in the year which Gupta was awarded his doctorate, three scientists at the Bell Laboratories were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the transistor.

  521. Schauder biography
    • In fact by the time Schauder received this prize his final publication (1937) had appeared in print.

  522. Kodaira biography
    • Wolf Prize1984/5 .

  523. Zorawski biography
    • For readers of this archive who do not recognise the name Maria Sklodowska, let us suggest that you will recognise her by her married name of Marie Curie, the famous physicist who was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity.

  524. Sylvester biography
    • For the same reason he was not eligible for a Smith's prize nor was he eligible to compete for a Fellowship.

  525. Whyburn biography
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1938 .

  526. Whitehead Henry biography
    • LMS Berwick Prize winner1948 .

  527. Saks biography
    • This book received a prize from the Polish Academy of Sciences in the year it was published.

  528. Mechain biography
    • His memoir won the prize which in turn was the main reason for his election to the Academy.

  529. Dougall biography
    • The Royal Society of Edinburgh awarded him their Makdougall-Brisbane Prize 1902-4.

  530. Caratheodory biography
    • Twice during his time at this school Constantin won a prize as the best mathematics student in Belgium.

  531. Menshov biography
    • For his work on the representation of functions by trigonometric series, Menshov was awarded a State Prize in 1951.

  532. Padoa biography
    • In 1934 Padoa was awarded the mathematics prize of the Accademia dei Lincei.

  533. Arbogast biography
    • Arbogast won the prize with his essay and his notion of discontinuous function became important in Cauchy's more rigorous approach to analysis.

  534. Todd John biography
    • My father was director of the church choir and also was quite active in chess, winning many prizes.

  535. Wright Sewall biography
    • In all he received nine major medals or prizes and was awarded ten honorary doctorates.

  536. Uhlenbeck Karen biography
    • In 1983 she was awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship and moved to a professorship at the University of Chicago.
    • Among the medals and prizes she has received we mention first the President's National Medal of Science which was awarded to her at an awards ceremony at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, on Friday, 1 December 2000:- .
    • On Saturday 6 January 2007 she received the American Mathematical Society's Leroy P Steele Prize at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
    • I thank the American Mathematical Society, its members and the Steele Prize committee for the honour and the award of the Steele Prize.
    • AMS Steele Prize2007 .

  537. Amsler biography
    • None of his other inventions came close to the polar planimeter in importance, but they were of sufficient quality to win him prizes at the world exhibition at Vienna in 1873, at Paris in 1881, and again in Paris in 1889.

  538. Gemma Frisius biography
    • He returned to London with mathematical instruments from Louvain as prized possessions.

  539. Hopf biography
    • He was awarded many prizes including the Gauss-Weber medal and the Lobachevsky award.

  540. McShane biography
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1953 .

  541. Konig Samuel biography
    • Firstly the Academy had just been involved in a dispute on the prize question for 1746, which Euler had made it clear required the entrants to criticise the philosophy of Leibniz and Wolff.

  542. Hammersley biography
    • In 1984 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and the Polya Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 1997.

  543. Lamb biography
    • The same year he was awarded a Smith's Prize and he was elected a Fellow and Lecturer at Trinity College.

  544. Dynkin biography
    • Dynkin has been awarded many prizes for his outstanding contributions.
    • He recieved the Prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society in 1951 and the Leroy P Steele Prize for Total Mathematical Work from the American Mathematical Society in 1993.
    • The Steele Prize was awarded:- .
    • AMS Steele Prize1993 .

  545. Chisholm Young biography
    • She wrote an essay on 'infinite derivatives' which won the Gamble Prize from Girton College in 1915.

  546. Chatelet biography
    • Although neither won, the prize was won by Euler, Du Chatelet's Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu was published by the Academie in 1744 along with the submissions of Voltaire and the winning entries.

  547. Danti biography
    • we know of no book or written document which has come down to us from ancient practitioners, although they were mot excellent, as is convincingly shown by the descriptions of the stage scenery they made, which was much prized both in Athens among the Greeks and in Rome among the Latins.

  548. Murnaghan biography
    • 103A (1), (2003), 101-112.',2)">2] Lewis gives a delightful quote from Russell Baker (who went on to become a prize-winning journalist) who attended Murnaghan's calculus lectures in 1942:- .

  549. Semple biography
    • After winning the Rayleigh Prize in 1929, Semple was appointed to a lecturing post at the University of Edinburgh.

  550. Scherk biography
    • His research was earning him praise and, in 1831, he was awarded a prize by the Jablonowsky Society in Leipzig for his eassy De proprietatibus superficiei quae hac continetur aequatione (1+q2 )r - 2pqs + (1+p2)t = 0 disquisitiones analyticae.

  551. Bernoulli Johann(II) biography
    • He had the remarkable distinction of winning the Prize of the Paris Academy on no less than four separate occasions.

  552. Coxeter biography
    • CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize1973 .

  553. Zhukovsky biography
    • By this time he had begun to receive awards for his outstanding work, having been awarded the N D Brashman prize for theoretical work in fluid dynamics in 1885.

  554. Ricci-Curbastro biography
    • The initial contributions had been made by Gauss, then the ideas had been developed in Riemann's 1854 Probevorlesung and in an 1861 paper which he wrote for a prize contest of the Paris Academie des Sciences.

  555. Ramsay biography
    • Dougald McQuistan and Peter Ramsay, two students of the secondary department of Whitehill Public School, Glasgow, have been awarded by the Science and Art Department "Queen's Prizes" to mathematics.

  556. Thompson Robert biography
    • Sadly the award of the International Linear Algebra Society's Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra came after his death.

  557. Schwarz Stefan biography
    • Schwarz was awarded the 1980 National Prize of the Slovak Socialist Republic.

  558. Poleni biography
    • His work was honoured by the award of a number of prizes: for calculating the distance travelled by a ship by the Academy of Sciences in 1733; for a study of ship's anchors also by the Academy of Sciences this time in 1736; and for a study of cranes and windlasses in 1741.

  559. Milne William biography
    • He took all the available prizes in mathematics and natural philosophy and a Ferguson Scholarship (that year all five scholarships, open to students in all the ancient Scottish universities, went to Aberdeen) allowed him to continue his studies at Cambridge where he also too first-class honours.

  560. Goodstein biography
    • Educated at St Paul's School London, Louis won scholarships and a prize for an essay on divergent series.

  561. Fuchs Klaus biography
    • I wouldn't have been able, of course, to forecast whether he might have received a Nobel prize, or whether he would have also become a Fellow of the Royal Society.

  562. Szasz biography
    • His major contribution during the years from 1915 to 1930 was recognised by the Hungarian Mathematical and Physical Society in 1939 when they awarded him their Julius Konig prize.

  563. Witten biography
    • He has received the Einstein Medal from the Einstein Society of Berne, Switzerland (1985), the Award for Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the New York Academy of Sciences (1985), the Dirac Medal from the International Center for Theoretical Physics (1985), the Alan T Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation (1986), the Madison Medal from Princeton University (1992), the New Jersey Pride Award (1996), the Award of the Golden Plate from the American Academy of Achievement (1997), the Klein Medal from Stockholm University (1998), the Dannie Heineman Prize from the American Institute of Physics (1998), the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics from Northwestern University (2000), the Clay Research Award from the Clay Mathematics Institute (2001), the Shalom Award from Americans for Peace Now (2002), the National Medal of Science (2003), the Pythagoras Award from Crotone, Italy (2005), the Harvey Prize from the Technion, Israel (2006), the Poincare Prize from the International Association Of Mathematical Physics (2006), and the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2008).
    • Nemmers Prize2000 .

  564. Grauert biography
    • In 1991 the University of Erlangen awarded him the von Staudt Prize.

  565. Robinson Julia biography
    • She was awarded a John D and Catherine D MacArthur Foundation Prize in 1983 in recognition of her contributions to mathematics.

  566. Suzuki Michio biography
    • In 1974 Suzuki was awarded the Academy Prize from the Japan Academy.

  567. Mittag-Leffler biography
    • FAQ's in Mathematics (Why there is no Nobel prize in mathematics) .

  568. Rychlik biography
    • He had been awarded the first prize in a mathematics competition for each of his years at the Gymnasium in Prague.

  569. Veblen biography
    • She was the sister of Owen Richardson who was the professor of physics at Princeton, and later went on to receive the Nobel prize for physics in 1928.

  570. Laurent Pierre biography
    • He submitted a memoir for the Grand Prize of the Academy of Sciences of 1842, unfortunately after the final date for submission in 1843.

  571. Bieberbach biography
    • Perhaps there is an irony in the fact that de Branges became the first winner of the Ostrowski Prize for solving the Bieberbach conjecture.

  572. Oka biography
    • He was awarded the Medal of the Japan Academy of Science in 1951, the Asahi-bunka-sho Prize of Culture in 1954 and the Bunka-kunsho Medal of Culture in 1960.

  573. Nassau biography
    • Also the Jason J Nassau Prize was established by the Cleveland Astronomical Society in 1965.

  574. McCrea biography
    • His talents were quickly appreciated at Cambridge and in 1927 he was awarded the Cambridge University Rayleigh Prize in Mathematics, a Trinity College Rouse Ball Senior Studentship, a Sheepshanks Exhibition in Astronomy, and an Isaac Newton Studentship.

  575. Euwe biography
    • Despite this overall impression of caution, it is worth noting that Euwe shared the prize for the most wins in his score during the tournament.

  576. Kotelnikov biography
    • He received many honours for his work, being named Honoured Scientist in 1934, then one year before he died he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.

  577. Jones Vaughan biography
    • In 1979 Jones was awarded his Docteur es Sciences (Mathematiques), and the following year he was awarded the Vacheron Constantin Prize for his doctoral thesis.
    • He served on the Nominating committee and the Steele Prize committee of the American Mathematical Society, and on the Programme Committee for the International Congress of Mathematicians held at Madrid in 2006.

  578. Markov biography
    • Markov graduated in 1878 having won the gold medal for submitting the best essay for the prize topic set by the faculty in that year - On the integration of differential equations by means of continued fractions.

  579. Woodhouse biography
    • On 20 May 1790 he was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Senior Wrangler (ranked first among the First Class students) and first Smith's prizeman in 1795.

  580. Petersen biography
    • In 1860 he passed his civil engineering examinations and, in the same year, submitted an essay on the history and properties of the cycloid for a University prize.

  581. Fresnel biography
    • Arago stated in his report on Fresnel's entry for the prize to the Academie des Sciences [Newton to Einstein (Cambridge, 1992).',3)">3]:- .

  582. Clapeyron biography
    • He served the Academy on many committees, in particular serving on the committee which awarded the mechanics prize.

  583. Dixon biography
    • Dixon was appointed a Fellow of Trinity College in 1888 and was awarded the second Smith's prize.

  584. Quillen biography
    • AMS Cole Prize for algebra1975 .

  585. Faltings biography
    • In the same year he received the Danny Heinemen Prize from the Akademie der Wissenschaften, Gottingen.
    • In 1996 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
    • This is the largest German research prize and it consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years.

  586. Frege biography
    • Eucken - like Russell and Sartre - was one of the few philosophers who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1908).

  587. Poisson biography
    • The topic for the prize was as follows (see for example [British J.

  588. Besicovitch biography
    • He received the Adams Prize from the University of Cambridge in 1930 for his work on almost periodic functions.

  589. Hopkinson biography
    • He was also first Smith's prizeman and made a fellow of Trinity College, so he looked set for a stunning university career in mathematics.

  590. Bienayme biography
    • In 1852 Bienayme was elected to the Paris Academy and for the next 23 years he was the referee for the statistics prize.

  591. Burnside biography
    • He was first Smith's Prizeman and 1875, was awarded a fellowship at Pembroke College which he held from 1875 to 1886, and became a College lecturer.

  592. Watson Henry biography
    • He graduated in 1850 as second wrangler and Smith's prizeman.

  593. Feit biography
    • His standing in the mathematics community was marked by award of the American Mathematical Society Cole Prize in Algebra, election to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, editorship of various journals, and Vice-Presidency of the International Mathematical Union.

  594. Grieve biography
    • Inspector of Schools, and former pupil of Breadalbane Academy, Aberfeldy addressed the pupils while his wife presented the prizes.

  595. Khinchin biography
    • Among the many honours which Khinchin received for his work was election to the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1939 and the award of a State Prize for scientific achievements in the following year.

  596. Tapia biography
    • On 8 January 2004 he received the 2004 Award for Distinguished Public Service from the American Mathematical Society at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Phoenix, Arizona, then on 14 July 2004 he received the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession.
    • SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service2004 .

  597. Bisacre biography
    • For his paper on Overhead Track Construction for Direct-Current Electric Railways, he was awarded a Crampton Prize.

  598. Watson biography
    • He won a prestigious Smith's Prize in 1909, becoming a Fellow of Trinity College in 1910.

  599. Moisil biography
    • He was honoured posthumously for his contributions to computing when the IEEE Computer Society awarded him their "Computer Pioneer" prize in 1996, twenty-three years after his death.

  600. Riesz biography
    • He was elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and, in 1949, he was awarded its Kossuth Prize.

  601. Ramsay Peter biography
    • Dougald McQuistan and Peter Ramsay, two students of the secondary department of Whitehill Public School, Glasgow, have been awarded by the Science and Art Department "Queen's Prizes" to mathematics.

  602. Ruse biography
    • The Society awarded him their Keith Prize for papers he published during 1935-7.

  603. Stoilow biography
    • He received many honours in State Prizes for his outstanding mathematical contributions and his tireless work in raising the level of scientific research in Romania.

  604. Collingwood biography
    • He was awarded the Rayleigh prize from Cambridge in 1923 but failed to obtain a fellowship.

  605. Haar biography
    • In 1903, his final year at the high school, he won first prize in the Eotvos contest in mathematics.

  606. Airey biography
    • The quality of his performance is indicated by the fact the he was awarded the Wright, Hockin and Hughes Prizes.

  607. Knapowski biography
    • Two years later the Polish Mathematical Society awarded him their Mazurkiewicz Prize.

  608. Kramer biography
    • Kramer and her two siblings, Martha, who was two years younger and Herbert, born in 1911 were held to high standards by their parents with the result that they were all prize-winning students, who were all elected to the Phi Beta Kappa and became teachers.

  609. Steggall biography
    • The Senior Wrangler in that year was Ernest Hobson but in the competition for the Smiths Prize it was Steggall who came out as the top candidate ahead of Hobson.

  610. Dunbar biography
    • The only additional facts we can add to those given above are that Dunbar was awarded the Robert Wilson Memorial Prize for Chemistry from Edinburgh University for session 1910 and that he was runner-up for the Mackay-Smith scholarship in Natural Philosophy in 1910.

  611. De Forest biography
    • in 1854 and his father celebrated the occasion by endowing the De Forest Mathematical Prize at Yale.

  612. Baker Alan biography
    • In addition to the honour of the Fields Medal, Baker has received many other honours including the Adams Prize from the University of Cambridge in 1972 and election to become a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973.

  613. Cayley biography
    • Cayley graduated as Senior Wrangler and won the first Smith's prize.

  614. Tannery Jules biography
    • At Caen Jules proved himself to be a truly outstanding pupil, winning prizes and delighting his parents who were very keen to see their sons achieve great things with their education.

  615. Mumford biography
    • He was awarded the Shaw Prize in 2006, the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition by the American Mathematical Society in 2007, and the Wolf Prize in 2008.
    • Shaw Prize2006 .
    • AMS Steele Prize2007 .
    • Wolf Prize2008 .

  616. Lacroix biography
    • He was judged as joint winner of the prize, but never received it.

  617. Copson biography
    • Copson was honoured by election to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1924 and was awarded the Keith Prize of the Society in 1941 for an outstanding series of papers published in the Proceedings.

  618. Synge biography
    • Secondly there was Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914-1994), Nobel laureate for Chemistry in 1952, who shared the Prize for Chemistry with A J P Martin for their development of partition chromatography, a method used to separate mixtures of closely related chemicals such as amino acids for identification.

  619. McKendrick biography
    • by which College he was awarded the Cullen prize in 1934.

  620. Wilkinson biography
    • MAA Chauvenet Prize winner1987 .

  621. Wedderburn biography
    • Among the honours which Wedderburn received were the MacDougall-Brisbane Gold Medal and Prize from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1921, and election to the Royal Society of London in 1933.

  622. Van der Pol biography
    • During his time at the Cavendish Laboratory between 1917 and 1919, van der Pol met and became friends with Edward Appleton who, thirty years later in 1947, was awarded the Nobel Prize of Physics for his contributions to understanding the ionosphere.

  623. Peirce Charles biography
    • He was equally brilliant, whether under the influence of liquor or otherwise, and his company was prized by the various organisations to which he belonged; and he was never dropped from any of them even though he was unable to pay his dues.

  624. Kochina biography
    • Also in 1946 Kochina was awarded the State Prize for her major contributions.

  625. Dodgson biography
    • Despite being deeply unhappy, Dodgson achieved high standards in his school work, receiving a steady stream of prizes.

History Topics

  1. Longitude2
    • To understand the value of this prize one has only to remember poor Flamsteed's annual salary of £100 to provide both a living and to buy his instruments.
    • In 1730 Harrison visited London, taking with him his gridiron pendulum and the grasshopper escapement which he had developed, and there he learnt exactly what was required to win the longitude prize.
    • Although up to this stage Harrison had been treated pretty well by the Board of Longitude he was now to find it almost impossible to convince them that H4 satisfied the conditions for the award of the £20000 prize.
    • The conditions of the prize were completely met when the Deptford reached Jamaica, H4 having only lost 5 seconds on the whole journey.
    • The weather was extremely bad and the Merlin was buffeted throughout the journey yet H4 still performed within the conditions set down for the £20000 prize.
    • Perhaps more significantly there were still many members of the Royal Society who still hoped to win the prize themselves.
    • Bradley claimed that he and Tobias Mayer would have shared the £10000 longitude prize but for Harrison's blasted watch.
    • It remained for Harrison to continue his battle but he began to fear that Mayer's report on his success with Mayer's tables might be seen as worthy of the prize since his own success had been ignored.
    • The scientific case for H4 winning the £20000 prize was indisputable.
    • A copy of H4 made by Kendall, called K1, was also found to come well within the conditions of the prize and John Harrison, at the age of 78, made another clock H5 in his attempts to satisfy further conditions set out by the Board of Longitude.
    • However it took a petition of John Harrison to the King George III before he received his prize for solving the longitude problem.
    • annual chronometer trials took place at Greenwich from 1821, with prizes for the best chronometers submitted.

  2. Longitude1
    • A solution had to be found, so countries began to adopt the standard method, namely to offer money, prizes, pensions, wealth beyond belief to mathematicians and astronomers who could give a method to find the longitude at sea.
    • The first country to offer a prize was Spain.
    • First Philip II offered a prize in 1567.
    • Soon after Philip III of Spain came to the throne in 1598 he was advised to offer a large prize to .
    • A prize of 6000 ducats plus 2000 ducat's income for life with 1000 ducats expenses was offered.
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    • Philip however was rather indifferent to his responsibilities as king and the huge response to his prize offer left him with little enthusiasm for any of the schemes proposed.
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    • A long correspondence over a period of 16 years failed to convince Spain of the virtues of the scheme so, when Holland offered a large prize in 1636 .
    • Since there were many large prizes on offer, large numbers of people tried to win them.
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  3. Tait's scrapbook
    • The friends became competitive when it came to school prizes.
    • There were school prizes open to all pupils and in 1846 Tait came third overall but first in mathematics, while in the following year Maxwell came first in mathematics with Tait second.
    • Here is an extract from the announcement of the 1846 prizes (taken from the Scrapbook):- .
    • The Academical Club Prize was this year awarded to the successful Competitor in all the departments of study pursued by the Academy.
    • He was also the first Smith's prizeman.

  4. Orbits
    • The Paris Academie des Sciences offered Prizes for work on this topic in 1748, 1750 and 1752.
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    • In 1748 Euler's studies of the perturbation of Saturn's orbit won him the Prize.
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    • His work for the 1752 Prize, however, contains many mathematical errors and was not published until 17 years later.
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    • Lagrange won the Academie des Sciences Prize in 1764 for a work on the libration of the Moon.
    • The Academie des Sciences Prize of 1772 for work on the orbit of the Moon was jointly won by Lagrange and Euler.
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  5. Maxwell's House
    • About the middle of his school career however he surprised his companions by suddenly becoming one of the most brilliant among them, gaining prizes and sometimes the highest prizes for scholarship, mathematics, and English verse composition.
    • This last manuscript is particularly interesting given that Maxwell would produce his prize winning Adams prize essay on Saturn's rings ten years later.
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  6. Quantum mechanics history

  7. Classical time
    • Several large prizes were offered for a solution to the problem of determining longitude and Galileo tried the persuade the Spanish Court in 1616 that he could determine absolute time using Jupiter's moons and, after failing to convince them, tried to persuade Holland of his method when they offered a large prize in 1636.

  8. Cubic surfaces
    • For his memoir Cremona was awarded a share of the Steiner Prize.
    • He shared the Prize with Rudolf Sturm who studied third degree surfaces in their projective representations and also proved theorems stated, but not proved, by Steiner.

  9. Special relativity
    • In 1912 Lorentz and Einstein were jointly proposed for a Nobel prize for their work on special relativity.
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    • Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity.

  10. Classical light
    • In 1817 the French Academie des Sciences proposed as their prize topic for the 1819 Grand Prix a mathematical theory to explain diffraction.
    • Arago stated in his report on Fresnel's entry for the prize to the Academie des Sciences [Newton to Einstein (Cambridge, 1992).',1)" onmouseover="window.status='Click to see reference';return true">1]:- .

  11. Mathematics and Art
    • we know of no book or written document which has come down to us from ancient practitioners, although they were mot excellent, as is convincingly shown by the descriptions of the stage scenery they made, which was much prized both in Athens among the Greeks and in Rome among the Latins.

  12. Weil family
    • When Andre was awarded a school prize he asked Hadamard to help him choose some mathematics books and as a result he became the proud owner of Jordan's Cours d'Analyse and Thomson and Tait's Treatise of Natural Philosophy.

  13. Fermat's last theorem

  14. The Scottish Book
    • From items at the end of this collection, it will be seen that some Russian mathematicians must have visited the town; they left several problems (and prizes for their solutions).

  15. Abstract groups
    • It was never considered for the prize which was awarded jointly to Abel (posthumously) and Jacobi in July 1830.

  16. Fractal Geometry
    • Still, the Academie des Sciences gave him some recognition and awarded him a prize for his paper on the topic.

  17. Voting
    • In fact it was shown in 1951 by Kenneth Arrow, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1972, that no voting system can be fair in the sense that it will produce a winner who will be preferred to every other candidate and still guarantee that a decisive result will be the outcome of the election.

  18. Quadratic etc equations
    • Fior challenged Tartaglia to a public contest: the rules being that each gave the other 30 problems with 40 or 50 days in which to solve them, the winner being the one to solve most but a small prize was also offered for each problem.
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Famous Curves

  1. Cycloid
    • Pascal published a challenge (not under his own name but under the name of Dettonville) offering two prizes for solutions to these problems.

Societies etc

  1. Berwick Prizewinners
    • Winners of the Berwick Prizes of the LMS .
    • Berwick Prizes are named after Professor W E H Berwick a past vice president of the LMS.
    • A Senior prize is awarded in even numbered years alternating with a Berwick prize.
    • Senior Berwick Prize winners .
    • Berwick Prize winners .
    • LMS Prizes etc: .
    • LMS Berwick Prize .
    • LMS Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Naylor Prize .
    • Other LMS prizewinners .

  2. MSJ Iyanaga, Spring and Autumn Prize
    • Iyanaga, Spring and Autumn Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan .
    • The Iyanaga Prize was established in 1973 and was awarded to eminent young researchers of the Mathematical Society of Japan.
    • It was named after Shokichi Iyanaga whose donation funded the prize.
    • In 1987 the Prize was awarded twice a year and renamed the Spring Prize and Autumn Prize.
    • The spirit of the prize remained the same as for the Iyanaga Prize.
    • Iyanaga Prize .
    • Mathematical Society of Japan Prizes, etc: .
    • MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize .
    • MSJ Analysis Prize .
    • MSJ Algebra Prize .
    • MSJ Geometry Prize .
    • MSJ Geometry Prize .
    • 1987 (Autumn Prize) Tetsuji Miwa, Michio Jimbo .
    • 1988 (Spring Prize) Kazuya Kato .
    • 1988 (Autumn Prize) Yujiro Kawamata, Shigefumi Mori .
    • 1989 (Spring Prize) Yoichi Miyaoka .
    • 1989 (Autumn Prize) Shinzo Watanabe .
    • 1990 (Spring Prize) Hiroshi Matano .
    • 1990 (Autumn Prize) Tetsuji Shioda .
    • 1991 (Spring Prize) Morihiko Saito .
    • 1991 (Autumn Prize) Akihiro Tsuchiya .
    • 1992 (Spring Prize) Haruzo Hida .
    • 1992 (Autumn Prize) Shoichiro Sakai .
    • 1993 (Spring Prize) Shigeo Kusuoka .
    • 1993 (Autumn Prize) Hitoshi Ishii .
    • 1994 (Spring Prize) Kenji Fukaya .
    • 1994 (Autumn Prize) Kunio Murasugi .
    • 1995 (Spring Prize) Mitsuhiro Shishikura .
    • 1995 (Autumn Prize) Hitoshi Ishii .
    • 1996 (Spring Prize) Shuji Saito .
    • 1996 (Autumn Prize) Shigeru Mukai .
    • 1997 (Spring Prize) Hitoshi Arai .
    • 1997 (Autumn Prize) Kazuhiko Aomoto .
    • 1998 (Spring Prize) Toru Ozawa .
    • 1998 (Autumn Prize) Hiroaki Nakamura, Akio Tamagawa, Shinichi Mochizuki .
    • 1999 (Spring Prize) Toshiyuki Kobayashi .
    • 1999 (Autumn Prize) Mikio Furuta .
    • 2000 (Spring Prize) Hiraku Nakajima .
    • 2000 (Autumn Prize) Yoshikazu Giga .
    • 2001 (Spring Prize) Takeshi Saito .
    • 2001 (Autumn Prize) Gen Nakamura .
    • 2002 (Spring Prize) Yasuyuki Kawahigashi .
    • 2002 (Autumn Prize) Yasumasa Nishiura .
    • 2003 (Spring Prize) Tomotada Ohtsuki .
    • 2003 (Autumn Prize) Susumu Ariki .
    • 2004 (Spring Prize) Takashi Kumagai .
    • 2004 (Autumn Prize) Toshiyasu Arai .
    • 2005 (Spring Prize) Takeshi Tsuji .
    • 2005 (Autumn Prize) Kaoru Ono .
    • 2006 (Spring Prize) Takuro Mochizuki .
    • Mathematical Society of Japan Prizes, etc: .
    • MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize .
    • MSJ Analysis Prize .
    • MSJ Algebra Prize .
    • MSJ Geometry Prize .
    • MSJ Iyanaga, Spring and Autumn Prize .

  3. EMS Whittaker Prize
    • Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society .
    • After the death of Sir Edmund Whittaker in 1956 his son John Whittaker most generously gave on behalf of the Whittaker Family the sum of £500 to the Edinburgh Mathematical Society to establish a prize for mathematical work in memory of his father.
    • The main rules governing the award of the prize are as follows: .
    • Prizes will be awarded for published work of particular merit in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, mathematical statistics or mathematical physics.
    • Normally one or more prizes of at least £50 will be awarded at four-yearly intervals, but an award may be withheld if no eligible work of sufficient merit has been published.
    • A candidate for a prize .
    • No prizewinner shall be eligible thereafter.
    • EMS Prizes etc: .
    • EMS Whittaker Prize .

  4. Wolf Prize
    • The Wolf Prize in mathematics .
    • The Wolf Prize in mathematics has been awarded since 1978.
    • There is no Nobel prize in mathematics.
    • Nobel prizes create so much public attention that mathematicians would lose their concentration to work.
    • There are several other prizes for mathematicians.
    • Then there is the Wolf Prize.
    • Since 1978, five or six annual prizes have been awarded to outstanding scientists and artists, irrespective of nationality, race, colour, religion, sex or political view, for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people.
    • In science, the fields are agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, and physics; in the arts, the prize rotates annually among music, painting, sculpture and architecture.
    • The Wolf Prize often honours the achievements of a whole life.
    • The first Wolf Prize winners in mathematics were Izrail M Gel'fand and Carl L Siegel (1978).
    • Several prize winners were born before 1910.
    • Thus the achievements of the prize winners cover much of the twentieth century.
    • The documents collected in these two volumes characterize the Wolf Prize winners in a form not available up to now: bibliographies and curricula vitae, autobiographical accounts, reprints of early papers or especially important papers, lectures and speeches, for example at International Congresses, as well as reports on the work of the prize winners by others.
    • Wolf Prize winners in mathematics: .
    • S S Chern and F Hirzebruch (eds.), Wolf Prize in mathematics Vol.
    • S S Chern and F Hirzebruch (eds.), Wolf Prize in mathematics Vol.
    • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Societies/Wolf_Prize.html .

  5. LMS Naylor Prize
    • The Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society .
    • The London Mathematical Society awards the Naylor Prize every two years in memory of V D Naylor.
    • No winner of another major London Mathematical Society prize is eligible.
    • LMS Prizes etc: .
    • LMS Berwick Prize .
    • LMS Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Naylor Prize .
    • Other LMS prizewinners .

  6. LMS Senior Whitehead Prize
    • The Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society .
    • The London Mathematical Society awards the Senior Whitehead Prize in even numbered years.
    • No winner of another major London Mathematical Society prize is eligible.
    • LMS Prizes etc: .
    • LMS Berwick Prize .
    • LMS Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Naylor Prize .
    • Other LMS prizewinners .

  7. Nobel Prizes
    • Nobel Prize winners .
    • The list given is of mathematicians in our archive who have been awarded Nobel Prizes.
    • Except where indicated, they won the prize for Physics.

  8. LMS Whitehead Prize
    • The Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society .
    • The London Mathematical Society awards the Whitehead Prize every year.
    • LMS Prizes etc: .
    • LMS Berwick Prize .
    • LMS Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Naylor Prize .
    • Other LMS prizewinners .

  9. AMS Cole Prize in Algebra
    • Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra of the AMS .
    • The Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra and the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory were founded in honour of Professor Frank Nelson Cole on the occasion of his retirement as secretary of the American Mathematical Society after twenty-five years of service and as editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society for twenty-one years.
    • The prizes were awarded at two different five-year intervals for contributions to algebra and the theory of numbers, but the intervals have been reduced to three years.
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  10. AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory
    • Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory of the AMS .
    • The Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra and the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory were founded in honour of Professor Frank Nelson Cole on the occasion of his retirement as secretary of the American Mathematical Society after twenty-five years of service and as editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society for twenty-one years.
    • The prizes were awarded at two different five-year intervals for contributions to algebra and the theory of numbers, but the intervals have been reduced to three years.
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  11. AMS Steele Prize
    • The Leroy P Steele Prize of the AMS .
    • A bequest from Leroy P Steele endowed this prize which was first awarded in 1970.
    • From 1970 to 1976 the prize was given for outstanding published mathematical research, preference given to work which was broad and particularly well written.
    • In 1976 the Council of the American Mathematical Society decided to award three categories of Leroy P Steele Prizes.
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  12. AMS Bôcher Prize
    • Bocher Prize of the AMS .
    • The Bocher Memorial Prize was founded in memory of Professor Maxime Bocher with an original endowment of $1,450.
    • It is the oldest of the prizes offered by the American Mathematical Society.
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  13. Nemmers Prize
    • The Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics .
    • Erwin Esser Nemmers and his brother Frederic Esser Nemmers left $14 million on their deaths to Northwestern University to fund a range of prizes equal in status to the Nobel Prizes.
    • However the money was insufficient for this purpose so, until the fund builds up further, only two prizes are being awarded, one in economics and one in mathematics.
    • The Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics .

  14. Abel Prize
    • The Abel Prize .
    • This prize was awarded for the first time in 2003 but it was first suggested over 100 years earlier.
    • Sophus Lie, when he saw that Nobel's plans for annual prizes did not include one for mathematics, proposed the setting up of an Abel Prize which would be awarded every five years.
    • A decision was again taken to establish an international Abel Prize but again the plan did not come to fruition.
    • With the bicentenary of Abel's birth approaching, Arild Stubhaug, who had written a major new biography of Abel, made another attempt to set up an Abel Prize.
    • The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announces the winners of the Abel prize, the first being awarded in 2003.
    • Below we list the winners and the citation for their prizes: .
    • Abel Prize Web site .

  15. AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize
    • George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics .
    • The George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics is a joint award by the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
    • The initial endowment came from the family of G D Birkhoff and the prize is restricted to a member of one of the two societies who is resident in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  16. AMS Wiener Prize
    • Norbert Wiener Prize of the AMS .
    • The Norbert Wiener Prize, to be awarded for:- .
    • The prize is jointly made by the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  17. AMS Veblen Prize
    • Oswald Veblen Prize of the AMS .
    • The Oswald Veblen Prize was established to honour Oswald Veblen.
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  18. AMS Satter Prize
    • Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize of the AMS .
    • Joan S Birman established this prize in 1990 in honour of her sister Ruth Lyttle Satter.
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  19. AMS Conant Prize
    • Levi L Conant Prize of the AMS .
    • This prize is:- .
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  20. Frank Nelson Cole Prize
    • Winners of the Frank Nelson Cole Prize of the AMS .
    • The Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra and the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory were founded in honour of Professor Frank Nelson Cole on the occasion of his retirement as secretary of the American Mathematical Society after twenty-five years of service and as editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society for twenty-one years.
    • The prizes are awarded at two different five-year intervals for contributions to algebra and the theory of numbers, respectively, under restrictions similar to those for the Bocher Prize.
    • Bocher Memorial Prize .
    • details of the work for the algebra prize and for the number theory prize.

  21. SIAM von Kármán Prize
    • The Theodore von Karman Prize .
    • The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards the Theodore von Karman Prize:- .
    • SIAM Prizes, etc: .
    • SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service .
    • SIAM von Karman Prize .
    • SIAM Ralph E Kleinman Prize .
    • SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics .
    • SIAM Polya Prize .

  22. SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics
    • The W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics .
    • The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards the W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics for work related to differential equations or control theory.
    • SIAM Prizes, etc: .
    • SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service .
    • SIAM von Karman Prize .
    • SIAM Ralph E Kleinman Prize .
    • SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics .
    • SIAM Polya Prize .

  23. SIAM George Pólya Prize
    • The George Polya Prize .
    • The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards the George Polya Prize every two years, alternately in two categories: .
    • SIAM Prizes, etc: .
    • SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service .
    • SIAM von Karman Prize .
    • SIAM Ralph E Kleinman Prize .
    • SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics .
    • SIAM Polya Prize .

  24. SIAM Ralph E Kleinman Prize
    • The Ralph E Kleinman Prize .
    • The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards the Ralph E Kleinman Prize:- .
    • SIAM Prizes, etc: .
    • SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service .
    • SIAM von Karman Prize .
    • SIAM Ralph E Kleinman Prize .
    • SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics .
    • SIAM Polya Prize .

  25. MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize
    • Seki-Takakazu Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan .
    • The Seki-Takakazu Prize is awarded by the Mathematical Society of Japan for distinguished contributions to the mathematical community over a sustained period.
    • Mathematical Society of Japan Prizes, etc: .
    • MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize .
    • MSJ Analysis Prize .
    • MSJ Algebra Prize .
    • MSJ Geometry Prize .
    • MSJ Iyanaga, Spring and Autumn Prize .

  26. MSJ Geometry Prize
    • Geometry Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan .
    • This prize is awarded by the Mathematical Society of Japan .
    • Mathematical Society of Japan Prizes, etc: .
    • MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize .
    • MSJ Analysis Prize .
    • MSJ Algebra Prize .
    • MSJ Geometry Prize .
    • MSJ Iyanaga, Spring and Autumn Prize .

  27. MSJ Analysis Prize
    • Analysis Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan .
    • This prize is awarded by the Mathematical Society of Japan .
    • Mathematical Society of Japan Prizes, etc: .
    • MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize .
    • MSJ Analysis Prize .
    • MSJ Algebra Prize .
    • MSJ Geometry Prize .
    • MSJ Iyanaga, Spring and Autumn Prize .

  28. MSJ Algebra Prize
    • Algebra Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan .
    • This prize is awarded by the Mathematical Society of Japan .
    • Mathematical Society of Japan Prizes, etc: .
    • MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize .
    • MSJ Analysis Prize .
    • MSJ Algebra Prize .
    • MSJ Geometry Prize .
    • MSJ Iyanaga, Spring and Autumn Prize .

  29. SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service
    • The SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service .
    • The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards its Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession:- .
    • SIAM Prizes, etc: .
    • SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service .
    • SIAM von Karman Prize .
    • SIAM Ralph E Kleinman Prize .
    • SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics .
    • SIAM Polya Prize .

  30. CMS Krieger-Nelson Prize
    • The Krieger-Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society .
    • The Krieger-Nelson Prize was set up by the Canadian Mathematical Society to recognize outstanding research by a female mathematician.
    • The first prize was awarded in 1995.
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Coxeter-James Prize .
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Jeffery-Williams Prize .
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Krieger-Nelson Prize .

  31. Paris Academy of Sciences
    • The Academy established a system of prizes in 1721.
    • One of the earliest prizes was awarded to Maclaurin for his work on the impact of bodies.
    • Euler shared the Grand Prize in 1738 and again in 1740.
    • Coulomb shared the 1777 prize with a memoir on the magnetic compass.
    • Poisson won the 1812 prize on electricity.
    • To show how precise the prize questions were worded, here is the text of the 1812 prize question:- .
    • This was the famous occasion when Galois submitted an entry to Fourier (who was at that time perpetual secretary), but after Fourier's death the submission was not found and so Galois's memoir was never considered for the prize.
    • The 1825 prize on the compressibility of water was not awarded and was set again in the following year when it was won by Sturm and Colladon with a joint submission.
    • The 1857 prize was offered for a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem and, not surprisingly, no solutions were submitted even when the deadline was extended.
    • The prize was awarded to Kummer, even although he had not entered! The 1858 Grand Prix was awarded half to Dupre with a paper on Legendre's theory of numbers.
    • In 1859 Bonnet, Bour and Codazzi submitted entries for the prize 'to find all surfaces of a given linear element'.
    • The 1860 prize on group theory was not awarded despite submissions from Kirkman, Emile Mathieu and Jordan.
    • In 1862 Jonquieres was awarded two-thirds of the Prize for his work on fourth order plane curves.

  32. CMS Coxeter-James Prize
    • The Coxeter-James Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society .
    • The Coxeter-James Prize was set up by the Canadian Mathematical Society to recognize young mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research.
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Coxeter-James Prize .
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Jeffery-Williams Prize .
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Krieger-Nelson Prize .

  33. IMU Nevanlinna Prize
    • IMU Rolf Nevanlinna Prize .
    • The International Mathematical Union awards the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
    • The prize is financed by the University of Helsinki.
    • IMU Prizes: .
    • DMV/IMU Gauss Prize .
    • IMU Nevanlinna Prize .

  34. CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize
    • The Jeffery-Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society .
    • The Jeffery-Williams Prize was set up by the Canadian Mathematical Society to recognize mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research.
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Coxeter-James Prize .
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Jeffery-Williams Prize .
    • Canadian Mathematical Society Krieger-Nelson Prize .

  35. MAA Chauvenet Prize
    • The Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America .
    • Julian Coolidge, then president of the Mathematical Association of America, presented funds to establish the Chauvenet Prize in 1925.
    • MAA Prizes etc: .
    • MAA Chauvenet_prize .
    • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Societies/Chauvenet_prize.html .

  36. DMV/IMU Gauss Prize
    • IMU Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics .
    • The International Mathematical Union and the the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung awards the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics for:- .
    • The prize was first awarded in 2006.
    • German Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .
    • DMV/IMU Gauss Prize .

  37. Young Mathematician prize
    • The St Petersburg Mathematical Society Young Mathematician prize .
    • St Petersburg Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .
    • St Petersburg Mathematical Society Young Mathematician Prize .

  38. MSJ analysis prize.html
    • Analysis Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan .
    • This prize is awarded by the Mathematical Society of Japan .
    • Mathematical Society of Japan Prizes, etc: .
    • MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize .
    • MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize .
    • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Societies/MSJ_analysis_prize .

  39. AMS Colloquium Lecturers
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  40. History of the AMS
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  41. AMS Gibbs Lecturer
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  42. AMS Presidents
    • AMS Prizes: .
    • AMS/SIAM Birkhoff Prize .
    • AMS Bocher Prize .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Algebra .
    • AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory .
    • AMS Conant Prize .
    • AMS Satter Prize .
    • AMS Steele Prize .
    • AMS Veblen Prize .
    • AMS Wiener Prize .

  43. History of the LMS
    • LMS Prizes etc: .
    • LMS Berwick Prize .
    • LMS Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Naylor Prize .
    • Other LMS prizewinners .

  44. LMS President
    • LMS Prizes etc: .
    • LMS Berwick Prize .
    • LMS Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Naylor Prize .
    • Other LMS prizewinners .

  45. De Morgan Medal Winners
    • LMS Prizes etc: .
    • LMS Berwick Prize .
    • LMS Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Naylor Prize .
    • Other LMS prizewinners .

  46. LMS Presidential Addresses
    • LMS Prizes etc: .
    • LMS Berwick Prize .
    • LMS Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Naylor Prize .
    • Other LMS prizewinners .

  47. LMS Honorary Member
    • LMS Prizes etc: .
    • LMS Berwick Prize .
    • LMS Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize .
    • LMS Naylor Prize .
    • Other LMS prizewinners .

  48. Ribenboim Prize
    • The Canadian Number Theory Association Ribenboim Prize .
    • The Ribenboim Prize is awarded by the Canadian Number Theory Association for distinguished research in number theory.
    • Normally those receiving the prize will have completed a doctorate not more than twelve years earlier.

  49. European Mathematical Society Prizes
    • European Mathematical Society Prizes .
    • The European Mathematical Society established prizes to recognise the achievements of young mathematicians not older than 32 years of age.
    • The prizes would be presented every four years at the European Congresses of Mathematics.

  50. Shaw Prize
    • The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences .
    • The Shaw Prize is an international award managed and administered by The Shaw Prize Foundation based in Hong Kong.

  51. Schafer Mathematics Prize
    • The Alice T Schafer Mathematics Prize .
    • The Association for Women in Mathematics established the Alice T Schafer Mathematics Prize in honour of Alice T Schafer for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman.
    • 1997 No prize awarded .

  52. Fermat Prize
    • Fermat Prize of the Universite Paul Sabatier .
    • The Fermat Prize is awarded to a mathematician for decisive research in those fields to which Pierre de Fermat contributed, namely: Statements of Variational Principles; Foundations of Probability and Analytical Geometry; and Number Theory.

  53. Swedish Academy of Sciences
    • A number of extremely prestigious prizes are awarded by the Academy.
    • International awards include the Crafoord Prize established in 1980 and awarded every year (for research in mathematics, astronomy, geology, and biology) and the Rolf Schock Prizes awarded every second year (for logic and philosophy, mathematics, the visual arts, and music).
    • Alfred Nobel's will set up the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry to be awarded by the Academy.
    • The Crafoord Prize was set up to specifically cover areas not covered by the Nobel prizes.

  54. AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Lecture
    • SIAM Prizes, etc: .
    • SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service .
    • SIAM von Karman Prize .
    • SIAM Ralph E Kleinman Prize .
    • SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics .
    • SIAM Polya Prize .

  55. SIAM John von Neumann Lecture
    • SIAM Prizes, etc: .
    • SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service .
    • SIAM von Karman Prize .
    • SIAM Ralph E Kleinman Prize .
    • SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics .
    • SIAM Polya Prize .

  56. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
    • The Society has inaugurated Prizes and established prestigious lecture series.
    • There followed: the Theodore von Karman Prize (1968), the George Polya Prize (1969), and the James H Wilkinson Prize (1979).
    • Many further prizes have been established.

  57. DVR Honorary Members
    • German Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .
    • DMV/IMU Gauss Prize .
    • IMU Nevanlinna Prize .

  58. MAA Hedrick Lecturers
    • MAA Prizes etc: .
    • MAA Chauvenet_prize .

  59. St Petersburg Mathematical Society Honorary Members
    • St Petersburg Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .
    • St Petersburg Mathematical Society Young Mathematician Prize .

  60. Sylvester Medal
    • A sum of nearly £900 was subscribed, and it was decided to found a medal and prize for the encouragement and reward of working mathematicians throughout the world.
    • Royal Society Prizes etc: .

  61. History of the EMS
    • EMS Prizes etc: .
    • EMS Whittaker Prize .

  62. Copley Medal
    • a medal or other honorary prize should be bestowed on the person whose experiment should be best approved..
    • Royal Society Prizes etc: .

  63. EMS Treasurers
    • EMS Prizes etc: .
    • EMS Whittaker Prize .

  64. EMS Secretaries
    • EMS Prizes etc: .
    • EMS Whittaker Prize .

  65. EMS Presidents
    • EMS Prizes etc: .
    • EMS Whittaker Prize .

  66. EMS Honorary Members
    • EMS Prizes etc: .
    • EMS Whittaker Prize .

  67. EMS Founder Members
    • EMS Prizes etc: .
    • EMS Whittaker Prize .

  68. London Mathematical Society
    • The London Mathematical Society established prestigious prizes early in its existence.
    • Berwick Prize winners .

  69. Royal Society of Edinburgh
    • Other points worth noting which relate to mathematicians in this archive are that Tait was twice a winner of the Keith Prize (a feat few have equalled) and, some years, later Herbert Turnbull won both the Keith Medal and Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize.

  70. Catalan Mathematical Society
    • It gives awards such as the Evariste Galois prize for students and the Josep Teixidor prize for the best PhD thesis.

  71. American Mathematical Society
    • Bocher Memorial Prize .
    • Frank Nelson Cole Prize .

  72. Estonian Mathematical Society
    • Prizes were offered for the best school pupils at solving mathematical problems and for research material by undergraduate students.

  73. Fellow of the Royal Society
    • Royal Society Prizes etc: .

  74. Fields Medal
    • John Charles Fields' Will established the Fields Medal, which has played the role of the Nobel Prize in Mathematics.

  75. German Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
    • We should also mention that the Society awards the Richard von Mises prize annually.

  76. Berlin Academy of Science
    • The mathematical papers he read there, as well as the prize-problems he proposed and evaluated for the Academy, are also discussed.

  77. Bakerian Lecturers
    • Royal Society Prizes etc: .

  78. Australian Mathematical Society Szekeres Medal
    • Australian Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .

  79. Australian Mathematical Society Medal
    • Australian Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .

  80. Australian Mathematical Society Mahler Lecturership
    • Australian Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .

  81. Royal Astronomical Society (London)
    • the collation and publication of observations already made or to be made; the education of observers; the determinations of position on our earth; the improvement of lunar tables; the establishment of relations with foreign astronomers, who may be elected as associates; the diffusion of information; the computation of orbits; the formation of a library; and the proposal of prize questions.

  82. Academy of Scientists Leopoldina
    • Its mission is that of promoting science in national and international co-operation, traditionally for the benefit of humankind and nature, among other things by academic events and commissions, publishing results obtained, maintaining a scientific archive and a scientific library, and by awarding honours and prizes, aimed among other things at promoting junior scientists.

  83. Indian Academy of Science
    • Raman, who had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930, was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Paris Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Sciences.

  84. NAS Award in Applied Mathematics
    • NAS Prizes: .

  85. NAS Award in Mathematics
    • NAS Prizes: .

  86. Norwegian Mathematical Society
    • For many years starting in 1922, Crown Prince Olav awarded a prize for the best solutions to a series of problems posed in the Journal.

  87. Royal Society of Canada
    • fostering the highest levels of learning and research in all areas of scholarship and recognizing outstanding achievements in research and innovation by electing new Fellows and awarding medals and prizes; .

  88. History of the Royal Society
    • Royal Society Prizes etc: .

  89. Presidents of the Royal Society
    • Royal Society Prizes etc: .

  90. Royal Medal
    • Royal Society Prizes etc: .

  91. French Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society
    • The French Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society sponsor the Blaise Pascal Prize which is awarded annually by the French Academy of Sciences for outstanding work in applications of mathematics and numerical computation to engineering.

  92. St Petersburg Mathematical Society
    • However, one should keep in mind that the Academy of Sciences, and most of its members, resided in the then capital [St Petersburg], and essentially performed the functions of a mathematical society, such as conducting scientific meetings, evaluation of papers, awarding prizes etc.

  93. BMC Press release
    • Britain is leading the world In various areas of mathematical research: there are currently six Fields medal winners (the equivalent of a Nobel prize in Mathematics) active, in this country, more than in other sciences! .

  94. Minutes for 2004
    • Rather than award prizes for lectures by students, it is proposed to give each student speaker a book token; the sponsor, OUP, approves.

  95. DVR Cantor Medal
    • German Mathematical Society Prizes, etc: .

  96. Mathematics 2005
    • SIAM provided four prizes of £50, for the best three student talks and the best student poster, and three of these four were presented by Sir Michael Berry after the final lecture of the conference.

References

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    • F Araki and S Iitaka, Profiles of the ICM-90 Fields Medal prizewinner (Japanese), Sugaku 42 (4) (1990), 361-366.
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    • 1984 Steele Prizes awarded at summer meeting in Eugene, Notices Amer.
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    • F Araki and S Iitaka, Profiles of the ICM-90 Fields Medal prizewinner (Japanese), Sugaku 42 (4) (1990), 361-366.
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  5. References for Singer
    • Atiyah and Singer receive 2004 Abel Prize, Notices Amer.
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  6. References for Nash
    • J Milnor, A Nobel prize for John Nash, The Mathematical Intelligencer 17 (3) (1995), 11-17.
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  7. References for Koopmans
    • L V Kantorovic and T C Koopmans : Nobel prize laureates (Czech), Ekonom.-Mat.
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    • Citation for the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences awarded to Kiyosi Ito by the Inamori Foundation (1998).
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  9. References for Poincare
    • J Barrow-Green, Oscar II's prize competition and the error in Poincare's memoir on the three body problem, Arch.
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  10. References for Einstein
    • A Pais, How Einstein got the Nobel prize (Russian), in Einstein collection, 1982-1983 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1986), 85-105.
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  11. References for Hirzebruch
    • Friedrich Hirzebruch, the second recipient of the Mathematical Society of Japan's Takakazu Kan Prize (Japanese), Sugaku 49 (2) (1997), 186.
    • K Ueno, The work of Friedrich Hirzebruch, recipient of the Takakazu Kan Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Japanese), Sugaku 49 (2) (1997), 186-187.

  12. References for Lions
    • J Lindenstrauss, L C Evans, A Douady, A Shalev and N Pippenger, Fields Medals and Nevanlinna Prize presented at ICM-94 in Zurich, Notices Amer.

  13. References for Zelmanov
    • J Lindenstrauss, L C Evans, A Douady, A Shalev and N Pippenger, Fields Medals and Nevanlinna Prize presented at ICM-94 in Zurich, Notices Amer.

  14. References for Castelnuovo
    • U Bottazzini, A Conte and P Gario, The report of Castelnuovo and Enriques : unpublished material for the Royal Prize in Mathematics of 1901 (Italian), in Studies in the history of modern mathematics, III.

  15. References for Laplace
    • E Frankel, The search for a corpuscular theory of double refraction : Malus, Laplace and the prize competition of 1808, Centaurus 18 (1973/74), 223-245.

  16. References for Yau
    • R Stern and G Tian, Donaldson and Yau receive Crafoord prize, Notices Amer.

  17. References for Hormander
    • L Garding, Lars Hormander wins the Wolf prize (Swedish), Normat 36 (3) (1988), 133-134.

  18. References for Donaldson
    • R Stern, and G Tian, Donaldson and Yau receive Crafoord prize, Notices Amer.

  19. References for Broglie
    • N H de V Heathcote, Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie, Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 287-296.

  20. References for Bohr Niels
    • N H de V Heathcote, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 198-205.

  21. References for Volterra
    • G Israel, On Vito Volterra's proposals to confer the Nobel Prize in physics on Henri Poincare (Italian), Proceedings of the fifth national congress on the history of physics, Rend.

  22. References for Bieberbach
    • J Korevaar, Laudatio on the Ostrowski Prize for Louis de Branges, Nieuw Arch.

  23. References for Manin
    • Manin receives Nemmers prize, Notices Amer.

  24. References for Bauer
    • Award of the Chauvenet Prize to Professor Heinz Bauer, Amer.

  25. References for Green Sandy
    • Prizewinners : Citation for James Alexander Green, Bull.

  26. References for Kato
    • T Kato, Remarks on receiving the 1980 Wiener Prize, Notices Amer.

  27. References for Fermi
    • Enrico Fermi : The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938, in Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941 (Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1965).

  28. References for Thompson John
    • Carleson and Thompson receive Wolf Prize, Notices Amer.

  29. References for Young Lai-Sang
    • Lai-Sang Young : 1993 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize, Notices Amer.

  30. References for Drinfeld
    • F Araki and S Iitaka, Profiles of the ICM-90 Fields Medal prizewinner (Japanese), Sugaku 42 (4) (1990), 361-366.
    • T I Manin, On the work of Vladimir Drinfeld, Address delivered by Michio Jimbo at ICM-90, Addresses on the works of Fields medalists and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize winner (Kyoto, 1990).

  31. References for Malus
    • E Frankel, The search for a corpuscular theory of double refraction : Malus, Laplace and the prize competition of 1808, Centaurus 18 (1973/74), 223-245.

  32. References for Struik
    • Ganitanand, Professor Dirk Jan Struik, the first winner of the highest prize in history of mathematics, Ganita Bharati 14 (1-4) (1992), 62-65.

  33. References for Gorenstein
    • 1989 Steele prizes awarded at Summer Meeting in Boulder, Notices Amer.

  34. References for Fefferman
    • Bergman Prize awarded to Charles Fefferman, Notices Amer.

  35. References for Kaplansky
    • 1989 Steele prizes awarded at Summer Meeting in Boulder, Notices Amer.

  36. References for Heisenberg
    • N H de V Heathcote, Werner Karl Heisenberg, Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 306312.

  37. References for Clerke
    • E S Holden, Award of the Acton prize to Miss Agnes Clerke, Astro.

  38. References for Mackie
    • Theses and Prize Essays (University of Edinburgh).

  39. References for Kakutani
    • K Yosida and Y Ito, Award of Academy-Imperial Prize to Shizuo Kakutani (Japanese), Sugaku 34 (4) (1982), 351-354.

  40. References for Schramm
    • D Aldous, Schramm Awarded 2003 Loeve Prize, Notices Amer.

  41. References for Chang
    • 1995 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, Notices Amer.
    • http://www.ams.org/notices/199504/prize-satter.pdf .

  42. References for Montgomery
    • 1988 Steele Prizes awarded at centennial celebration in Providence, .

  43. References for Hertz Gustav
    • Gustav Hertz : The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925.

  44. References for Rayleigh
    • N H de V Heathcote, John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 27-33.

  45. References for Spitzer
    • G Gaham, The Crafoord Prize 1985 in Astronomy to Professor Lyman .

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    • N H de V Heathcote, Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel prize winners in physics, 1901-1950 (New York, 1953), 411-421.

  47. References for Weil
    • Weil receives Kyoto prize, Notices Amer.

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    • L Misik, Academician Stefan Schwarz awarded the 1980 National Prize of the Slovak Socialist Republic, Czechoslovak Math.

  49. References for Zariski
    • 1981 Steele Prizes, Notices Amer.

  50. References for Simon
    • Leon Simon receives 1994 Bocher Memorial Prize, Notices Amer.

  51. References for Daubechies
    • 1997 Satter Prize, Notices Amer.

  52. References for Freedman
    • Michael H Freedman awarded 1986 Veblen Prize, Notices Amer.

  53. References for Bourgain
    • J Lindenstrauss, L C Evans, A Douady, A Shalev and N Pippenger, Fields Medals and Nevanlinna Prize presented at ICM-94 in Zurich, Notices Amer.

  54. References for Doob
    • 1984 Steele Prizes awarded at summer meeting in Eugene, Notices Amer.

  55. References for Serre
    • 1995 Steele Prizes, Notices Amer.

  56. References for Dynkin
    • Eugene B Dynkin, 1993 Steele Prizes, Career Award, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 40 (1993), 975-977.

  57. References for Lax Peter
    • Lax receives Abel Prize, Notices Amer.

  58. References for Mazur Barry
    • 2000 Steele Prizes, Notices Amer.

  59. References for Yoccoz
    • J Lindenstrauss, L C Evans, A Douady, A Shalev and N Pippenger, Fields Medals and Nevanlinna Prize presented at ICM-94 in Zurich, Notices Amer.

Additional material

  1. Wolf Prize.html
    • Wolf Prize in mathematics .
    • The Wolf Prize in mathematics has been awarded since 1978.
    • There is no Nobel prize in mathematics.
    • Nobel prizes create so much public attention that mathematicians would lose their concentration to work.
    • There are several other prizes for mathematicians.
    • Then there is the Wolf Prize.
    • Since 1978, five or six annual prizes have been awarded to outstanding scientists and artists, irrespective of nationality, race, colour, religion, sex or political view, for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people.
    • In science, the fields are agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, and physics; in the arts, the prize rotates annually among music, painting, sculpture and architecture.
    • The Wolf Prize often honours the achievements of a whole life.
    • The first Wolf Prize winners in mathematics were Izrail M Gelfand and Carl L Siegel (1978).
    • Several prize winners were born before 1910.
    • Thus the achievements of the prize winners cover much of the twentieth century.
    • The documents collected in these two volumes characterize the Wolf Prize winners in a form not available up to now: bibliographies and curricula vitae, autobiographical accounts, reprints of early papers or especially important papers, lectures and speeches, for example at International Congresses, as well as reports on the work of the prize winners by others.
    • Wolf Prize winners in mathematics: .
    • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Wolf_Prize.html .

  2. W H and G C Young
    • Susannah and Henry Young had an only child, the later Henry ( born 1837, died 1899), who was in due course sent to the City of London School, where he won mathematical prizes and the friendship of another bright boy, Edwin Abbot.
    • Will did not compete for a Smith's Prize.
    • Instead of the Smith's Prize, he competed for the Peterhouse Theological Prize (the "Butler Prize", awarded on an examination on Butler's Analogy), which he won.
    • Will did make some half-hearted inquiries about the Smith's Prize.
    • Will turned over this last suggestion in his mind, and realized that Cambridge -could do with some life put into mathematics! However, the way to cause this, was not to write an abstruse textbook for the Smith's Prize.
    • Between September 1913 and June 1916 my father produced only 3 research papers, one of them joint with my mother, and she produced in her own name alone, 3 research papers herself, one of which won the Gamble Prize at Girton.
    • Soon I too was an avid reader of Plato, and I obtained a School Prize for reading the Theaetetus.
    • Our rabbits -- descendants of our prize silver-fur pet-- mowed our grass when we placed them in specially devised roly-polys of wire netting.

  3. Whittaker RSE Prize
    • E T Whittaker awarded the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize .
    • E T Whittaker was awarded the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on Monday 1 July 1929.
    • Edinburgh's position in the field of Mathematical science was referred to yesterday when the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh was presented to Professor E T Whittaker, F.R.S., of the Chair of Mathematics in Edinburgh University.
    • The prize was presented by the president of the Society, Principal Sir Alfred Ewing, K.C.B., prior to the last ordinary meeting of the session, held in the Society's House, 24 George Street.
    • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Whittaker_RSE_Prize.html .

  4. IMU Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics
    • IMU Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics .
    • The International Mathematical Union and the the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung awards the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics for:- .
    • The prize was first awarded in 2006.
    • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gauss_prize.html .

  5. IMU Rolf Nevanlinna Prize
    • IMU Rolf Nevanlinna Prize .
    • The International Mathematical Union awards the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
    • The prize is financed by the University of Helsinki.
    • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Nevanlinna_prize.html .

  6. The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
    • The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences .
    • The Shaw Prize is an international award managed and administered by The Shaw Prize Foundation based in Hong Kong.
    • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Shaw_prize.html .

  7. The Ralph E Kleinman Prize
    • The Ralph E Kleinman Prize .
    • The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards the Ralph E Kleinman Prize:- .
    • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Ralph_E_Kleinman_prize.html .

  8. The SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service
    • The SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service .
    • The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards its Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession:- .

  9. Eulogy to Euler by Fuss
    • He was not awarded, it is true, and the whole prize, but rather shared it with Daniel Bernoulli and Colin Maclaurin who were not exactly unworthy rivals.
    • The Academy did not often see such brilliant competition, and perhaps received on such a short list of questions the three prize memoires as a result of those questions.
    • The theory of magnetism which took the Paris Academy prize in 1744 is too well known to have to say a great deal about it.
    • Which have been included in to the collections of the Saint Petersburg, Paris and Berlin Academies as well as principally in the two memoires in the way in which to compensate for the wind and the effects of pitching and rolling of which the latter was awarded the prize of the Paris Academy in 1759.
    • Mayer was able to use and which are still in usage by today's astronomers and which allowed him to win the longitude prize.
    • Euler [See footnote 10] with his associate membership, had crowned three of his memoires concerning the inequalities in the motion of the planets, chosen as the subject for its prize of 1770 and 1772, the perfection of lunar motion and Mr.
    • Euler with help from his son who had already shared the 1761 prize on the masting of ships, were rewarded with the one and the other.
    • The eldest who has for a very long time followed in the footsteps of his illustrious father, is equally famous due to the prizes that he was awarded by the Academies of Saint Petersburg, Paris, Munich and Gšttingen.

  10. Eulogy to Euler by Fuss
    • He was not awarded, it is true, and the whole prize, but rather shared it with Daniel Bernoulli and Colin Maclaurin who were not exactly unworthy rivals.
    • The Academy did not often see such brilliant competition, and perhaps received on such a short list of questions the three prize memoires as a result of those questions.
    • The theory of magnetism which took the Paris Academy prize in 1744 is too well known to have to say a great deal about it.
    • Which have been included in to the collections of the Saint Petersburg, Paris and Berlin Academies as well as principally in the two memoires in the way in which to compensate for the wind and the effects of pitching and rolling of which the latter was awarded the prize of the Paris Academy in 1759.
    • Mayer was able to use and which are still in usage by today's astronomers and which allowed him to win the longitude prize.
    • Euler [See footnote 10] with his associate membership, had crowned three of his memoires concerning the inequalities in the motion of the planets, chosen as the subject for its prize of 1770 and 1772, the perfection of lunar motion and Mr.
    • Euler with help from his son who had already shared the 1761 prize on the masting of ships, were rewarded with the one and the other.
    • The eldest who has for a very long time followed in the footsteps of his illustrious father, is equally famous due to the prizes that he was awarded by the Academies of Saint Petersburg, Paris, Munich and Gšttingen.

  11. Mathematics in St Andrews
    • The places in the Honour and Prize List are determined by the results of the examinations.
    • The examination takes place early in November, and a prize is awarded to the best competitor.
    • The honour and prize list is founded on the class examinations and the home exercises.
    • Extra prizes are given for work done during the summer following the first or second class.
    • The Duncan Prize is open for competition to Students who have attended at least the Second and Third Mathematical Classes of the United College, and who present themselves for examination at the commencement of the Session immediately following that of their attendance on the Third Class.

  12. EMS obituary
    • He won a Smith's Prize in 1889 for an essay on the complete system of 148 concomitants of 3 ternary quadrics.
    • Baker rejoiced in their achievements and they gave him ample cause; a Smith's Prize was won by one of them every year from 1927 to 1933, a run of 7 consecutive prizes: few Cambridge teachers can have had so rewarding an experience.
    • There one listened to the exposition of the embryonic Smith's Prize essays.
    • He proposed the Principle of Least Action for a Smith's Prize essay.

  13. Mathematics in Edinburgh
    • The whole Class is examined at short intervals during the Session upon the subjects already treated in the Lectures; and a prize is given for the best answering.
    • The Prizes in each division of the Class are determined by adding the marks obtained in the two sets of Examinations above described.
    • No Student who has obtained a Prize in either Division of the Class can be allowed to compete, in a subsequent Session, for a Prize in the same or in a Lower Division.

  14. Mathematics at Aberdeen 4
    • The trust was further augmented on Anne Cruickshank's death to support several other University institutions including a lectureship in Astronomy, the Science Library and a prize in the Faculty of Law.
    • A prize of Ł60, founded in 1841 under the will of John Simpson, awarded by special examination in the magistrand year, encouraged study of Mathematics to a higher level.
    • The Gray fund, conjoined with those of Fullerton and Moir, supports post graduate scholarships and in the Mathematics Department the revenues of the Simpson and Boxill foundations provide the first and second prizes awarded to Honours degree candidates.

  15. Euler Elogium.html.html
    • Bernoulli, that he was the only other person to share the distinction of having won the prize of the Academy of Sciences thirteen times.
    • The natural progress of the mathematical sciences should have lead this revolution, but he saw it, so to say, develop right in front of his eyes, and it is to his genius that we know it as the prize of his efforts and his discoveries.
    • There is a second son who today studies Medicine but who in his youth won from this Academy a prize concerning the average mean movement of the Planets.

  16. EMS obituary
    • He was Second Wrangler in 1907 (as was his father in 1864), obtained a First in Part II of the 1908 Tripos and shared a Smith's Prize with G N Watson in 1909.
    • but his merits had been already recognised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh which awarded him the Keith Prize and the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize.

  17. ELOGIUM OF EULER
    • Bernoulli, that he was the only other person to share the distinction of having won the prize of the Academy of Sciences thirteen times.
    • The natural progress of the mathematical sciences should have lead this revolution, but he saw it, so to say, develop right in front of his eyes, and it is to his genius that we know it as the prize of his efforts and his discoveries.
    • There is a second son who today studies Medicine but who in his youth won from this Academy a prize concerning the average mean movement of the Planets.

  18. Muir obituary.html
    • of the University of Glasgow, to which he had been examiner in mathematics since 1879, was bestowed on him in 1882 at an unusually early age, and the Keith Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh had been awarded to him in 1884.
    • In 1899 he had been awarded the Keith Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for the second time; in 1916 he received from the same Society the Gunning-Victoria prize.

  19. Percy MacMahon addresses the British Association in 1901
    • The custom of offering prizes for the solutions of definite problems which are necessary to the general advance obtains more in Germany and in France than here, where, I believe, the Adams Prize stands alone.

  20. Mathematics in Aberdeen.html

  21. Mathematics in Aberdeen
    • First Class: 4 students; Wm C Dickson, William Ingram, Robert S Kemp (Boxhill Mathematical Prizeman, and Arnott Prizeman), William Thomson (Simpson Mathematical Prizeman).

  22. Pál Erdös's student years
    • Paul Erdos won the Wolf Prize in 1984, a prize in mathematics which has the same prestige as the Nobel Prize in other sciences.

  23. Edinburgh's tribute to A C Aitken
    • The Society awarded him its Makdougall-Brisbane Prize in 1933 and the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize, the highest award in its gift, in 1953.

  24. Hörmander in 'Looking forward from ICM 1962
    • The Nobel prizes and the Fields medals are so very different in character; while Nobel prizes are supposed to be given for work of already recognized importance, often the work of a lifetime, the Fields medals are given 'in recognition of work already done, and as an encouragement for further achievement on the part of the recipients'.

  25. Jenó Wigner's student years
    • Jeno (Eugene) P Wigner was born in Budapest in 1902, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics as a professor at Princeton University in 1963 for understanding the role of symmetries in quantum mechanics, for the discovery of parity, and for applying quantum mechanics to atomic nuclei.
    • In his acceptance speech for his Nobel Prize, he said: .

  26. John Couch Adams' account of the discovery of Neptune
    • Meanwhile the Royal Academy of Sciences of Gottingen had proposed the theory of Uranus as the subject of their mathematical prize, and although the little time which I could spare from important duties in my college prevented me from attempting the complete examination of the theory which a competition for the prize would have required, yet this fact, together with the possession of such a valuable series of observations, induced me to undertake a new solution of the problem.

  27. A de Lapparent: 'Wantzel
    • In 1831, the first prize of French dissertation from the College Charlemagne was awarded to him, and better yet, first prize in Latin dissertation, acquired in an open contest, attested with splendour to the universality of Wantzel's aptitude.

  28. Three Sadleirian Professors
    • He graduated as Senior Wrangler and First Smith's Prizeman in 1881 and was elected a Fellow of Trinity in the same year.
    • For a time he took pupils in conjunction with the other Smith's Prizeman of 1901, Mr J H (now Sir James) Jeans, one teaching pure mathematics and the other applied.

  29. William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
    • All rewards for scholarship are strictly individual and are given in money, or in prizes, or in honourable mentions.
    • There would be prizes and honourable mentions for several teams and individuals.

  30. Wolfgang Pauli and the Exclusion Principle
    • In 1945 Wolfgang Pauli was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics:- .
    • The history of the discovery of the "exclusion principle", for which I have received the honour of the Nobel Prize award in the year 1945, goes back to my students days in Munich.

  31. H W Turnbull's LMS Obituary by Ledermann
    • After being placed Second Wrangler in 1907 he obtained a First in Part II of the Mathematical Tripos, and in 1909 he won the Smith Prize.
    • His great merits for mathematics in Scotland were acknowledged by the awards of the Keith Medal and the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and by the LL.D.

  32. John Couch Adams' account of the discovery of Neptune
    • Meanwhile the Royal Academy of Sciences of Gottingen had proposed the theory of Uranus as the subject of their mathematical prize, and although the little time which I could spare from important duties in my college prevented me from attempting the complete examination of the theory which a competition for the prize would have required, yet this fact, together with the possession of such a valuable series of observations, induced me to undertake a new solution of the problem.

  33. Pinkerton rector
    • with distinction in classics, and first-class honours in mathematics and natural philosophy; gained numerous prizes during his course; and held the Breadalbane and John Clark Scholarships in mathematics and natural philosophy.
    • For two years he attended the Royal College of Science, Dublin, as holder of a royal exhibition from the Science and Art Department, and obtained several prizes.

  34. Edinburgh Physics Examinations
    • The first contains 25 questions with 6 additional questions only for those competing for the Neil-Arnott Prize for whom they are compulsory.
    • Candidates for the Neil-Arnott Prize will answer the following questions along with not more than twelve of the preceding questions.

  35. EMS obituary
    • While training at the College, he entered the University of Edinburgh, where he was First Medallist and Prizeman in the mathematical classes for three years in succession, and gained the Newton Bursary.

  36. EMS honours James Leslie
    • These he mastered, by himself, and, at the mature ago of 13, entered the University of St Andrews, His parents must have been hard-pressed to find the money, but such sacrifices produced fine characters; he was found qualified for the senior class in mathematics, and at the end of the year he gained a prize.

  37. EMS obituary
    • He had a brilliant career in mathematics and astronomy at Cambridge where he was Tyson Medallist 1919, Smith's Prizeman 1921, Isaac Newton Student 1921-3, and Fellow of St John's College 1922.

  38. EMS obituary
    • In the case of systems with two degrees of freedom he came near to achieving the aim, embodying the results in a memoir (1917) which was awarded the American Mathematical Society's newly established Bocher Memorial Prize (1923), and on which Birkhoff is said to have remarked that it was as good a piece of work as he was ever likely to do.

  39. Gauss: 'Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
    • Most Serene Prince, if YOU judge it worthy of that extraordinary favour which You have always lavished on me, I will congratulate myself that my work was not in vain and that I have been graced with that honour which I prize above all others.

  40. Colin Maclaurin
    • In Lorraine, where he settled with his ward, the record tells us that "he gained, the esteem of the most distinguished persons of both sexes, and at the same time quickly improved that easy genteel behaviour which was natural to him, both from the temper of his mind, and the advantages of a graceful person." At the same time he found leisure to write a treatise on percussion of bodies which was awarded the prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences for 1724.

  41. Dubreil-Jacotin on Sophie Germain
    • She had the great honour in 1816 of receiving from the Paris Academy of Sciences the Grand Prize of the Mathematical Sciences, for a paper on the vibrations of thin elastic plates, a question put up for competition since 1811.

  42. Ince obituary.html
    • To these years of - to use his own words - "war-time stagnation" belong his Smith's Prize from Cambridge and his doctorate from Edinburgh.

  43. G H Hardy's schedule of lectures in the USA
    • Awarded Chauvenet Prize by MAA .

  44. EMS obituary
    • Among his prizes were three for Mathematics, two for Chemistry and one for Mental Philosophy.

  45. EMS obituary
    • He was nineteenth wrangler in 1884, was classed Division I, Part III, in 1885, and was awarded a Smith's Prize in 1886 for an essay on Newton's Laws of Motion.

  46. EMS 1938 Colloquium
    • and the presentation to Professor H S Ruse of the Society's "Keith Prize" for his work on the geometry of Dirac's equations.

  47. Steggal obituary.html
    • He was born in London and educated at the City of London School and Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his degree as Second Wrangler and afterwards winning the First Smith's Prize, as Kelvin and Clerk Maxwell had done before him.

  48. Peter Lax's student years
    • For his work, he received the Wolf Prize in 1987 and was elected to honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1994.

  49. EMS obituary
    • He was educated at John Street School, the Free Church Training College for Teachers and at the University where, after winning prizes in the classes of Latin, Greek, Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, he graduated M.A.

  50. Whittaker EMS Obituary.html
    • In 1896 Whittaker was elected a Fellow of Trinity College and in 1897 was first Smith's prizeman, his essay being entitled "On the reduction of the theory of multiform functions to uniform functions." .

  51. MacRobert Professor
    • In 1916 he graduated D.Sc., and was awarded the William Jack Prize as the author of the best work on a Mathematical subject submitted as a thesis during the preceding four years.

  52. Gibson History 9 - Colin Maclaurin
    • Not unnaturally the College authorities felt aggrieved at his conduct, but possibly the fact that Maclaurin had while in France been awarded a prize by the Academie Royale des Sciences of Paris for his thesis on the Percussion of Bodies (1724) helped to effect a reconciliation.

  53. EMS obituary
    • He was born in London and educated at the City of London School and Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his degree as Second Wrangler and afterwards winning the First Smith's Prize, as Kelvin and Clerk Maxwell had done before him.

  54. EMS obituary
    • In 1921 he was awarded the Makdougall-Brisbane prize and medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his investigations into hypercomplex numbers.

  55. Writings of Charles S Peirce' Preface
    • Given his expertise both in mathematics and the physical sciences, he possessed to an extraordinary degree those technical skills philosophers so prize, and he mobilized these in the service of a systematic vision of the workings of the human mind and its place in the cosmos.

  56. Gibson History 12 - Minor figures, Arithmetic Books
    • I am old fashioned enough to hold that they were an excellent introduction to mathematics; they were prized in many a village school, were used for the training of the sons of artisans and farmers at a time when the parish was almost self contained, and secured for the schoolmaster a status as a scholar that is not nowadays accorded to an Honours graduate.

  57. Footnote 11
    • (11) The notes of the paper concerning the prize were lost on this occasion, and M.

  58. EMS obituary
    • This honour was much prized by him, and greatly appreciated by his fellow-teachers throughout Scotland.

  59. Max Planck and the quanta of energy
    • Max Planck was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics:- .

  60. János Kemény's student years
    • For developing the time sharing system for networking computers, he was awarded the first Robinson Prize in 1991 by IBM.

  61. Planck's quanta.html
    • Max Planck was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics:- .

  62. James Clerk Maxwell on the nature of Saturn's rings
    • Maxwell was awarded the Adams Prize for his essay which contained many pages of detailed mathematical calculations.

  63. EMS 1938 Colloquium 4.html
    • and the presentation to Professor H S Ruse of the Society's "Keith Prize" for his work on the geometry of Dirac's equations.

  64. H L F Helmholtz: 'Theory of music' Prefaces
    • 316, I was able to use the Soemmering prize which had been awarded me by the Senckenberg Physical Society (die Senckenbergische naturforschende Gesellschaft) at Frankfurt-on-Main.

  65. Centenary of John Leslie
    • At the end of the year he gained a prize.

  66. Turnbull Professor
    • as second wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1907, and won Smith's Prize in 1909.

  67. Copson Professor
    • In 1942 he received the Keith Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his researches in mathematics.

  68. Scotland in 1883 and the EMS
    • One of the students graduating in 1881 was Alexander Yule Fraser, who was a Boxill Mathematical Prizeman, and went on to become a mathematics master at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and was one of the three signatories of the letter proposing to set up the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.

  69. Friedrich Hirzebruch addresses the 1998 ICM
    • Progress and future of mathematics are represented by the laureates of the Fields medal and the Nevanlinna prize.

  70. An interview with Prof Eduardo L Ortiz
    • He was Professeur de la Premiere Classe, Universite d'Orleans, France, 1992-1993; Foreign Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Buenos Aires 1998; Winner of J Babini History of Science National Prize, Argentina, 1990; Chief Editor, The Humboldt Library, London.

  71. Turnbull lectures on Colin Maclaurin
    • It was there that Maclaurin wrote a thesis On the Percussion of Bodies which gained for him one of the three prizes of the Academy of Sciences at Paris for the year 1724, other recipients being Leonard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli.

  72. EMS obituary
    • awarded him the Makdougall-Brisbane prize for his work on the torsional rigidity of wires.

  73. J M Whittaker Chair
    • In 1925 Mr Whittaker was elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming later a Wrangler, Smith's Prizeman, Fellow of Pembroke, and University lecturer.

  74. James Clerk Maxwell on the nature of Saturn's rings
    • Maxwell was awarded the Adams Prize for his essay which contained many pages of detailed mathematical calculations.

  75. EMS obituary
    • R A Sampson, who succeeded Dyson in 1910, was 2 years junior to Baker at Cambridge and emulated his friend by winning a Smith's Prize and a St John's Fellowship; this was one of Baker's closest friendships and Sampson was Baker's best man in 1893.

  76. Turnbull lectures on Colin Maclaurin, Part 2
    • The book includes a discussion on the tides: this part had been previously published, in 1740, and had received a prize from the French Academy.

  77. Paul Levy and René Gateaux
    • Five notes in 1913 and in 1914 in the Compes rendus of the Academy of Sciences and in the Rendiconti of the Accademia dei Lincei, contained results of such importance that the Academy of Sciences decided to award him the Francoeur Prize in 1916.

  78. Mathematicians and Music 3
    • He was also the founder of the well-known Smith's Prizes:- .

  79. EMS obituary
    • At the University he more than fulfilled the promise of his school career by gaining many prizes in the classes of Professors Chrystal and Tait, and graduating with First Class Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1894.

  80. Mathematics at Aberdeen 3
    • Undeterred, Maclaurin eventually settled with his charge in Lorraine where he produced work on the percussion of bodies (which gained him a prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 1724) and continued his geometrical researches.

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Chronology

  1. Mathematical Chronology
    • D'Alembert uses partial differential equations to study the winds in Reflexion sur la cause generale des vents (Reflection on the General Cause of Winds) which receives the prize of the Prussian Academy.
    • Fourier's prize winning essay of 1811 is published as Theorie analytique de la chaleur (Analytical Theory of Heat).
    • It will lead to the award of a Nobel Prize in 1994.
    • Thurston is awarded the Oswald Veblen Geometry Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his work on foliations.
    • A large prize is offered by banker Andrew Beal for a solution to the Beal Conjecture: the equation xp + yq = zr has no solutions for p, q, r > 2 and coprime integers x, y, z.
    • Wiles is awarded the Wolfskehl Prize for solving Fermat's last theorem.

  2. Chronology for 1990 to 2000
    • A large prize is offered by banker Andrew Beal for a solution to the Beal Conjecture: the equation xp + yq = zr has no solutions for p, q, r > 2 and coprime integers x, y, z.
    • Wiles is awarded the Wolfskehl Prize for solving Fermat's last theorem.
    • A prize of seven million dollars is put up for the solution of seven famous mathematical problems.
    • Called the Millennium Prize Problems they are: P versus NP; The "Hodge Conjecture"; The Poincare Conjecture; The Riemann Hypothesis; "Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap"; "Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness"; and The "Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture".

  3. Chronology for 1740 to 1760
    • D'Alembert uses partial differential equations to study the winds in Reflexion sur la cause generale des vents (Reflection on the General Cause of Winds) which receives the prize of the Prussian Academy.

  4. Chronology for 1960 to 1970
    • It will lead to the award of a Nobel Prize in 1994.

  5. Chronology for 1820 to 1830
    • Fourier's prize winning essay of 1811 is published as Theorie analytique de la chaleur (Analytical Theory of Heat).

  6. Chronology for 1970 to 1980
    • Thurston is awarded the Oswald Veblen Geometry Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his work on foliations.

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