From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Whitehead Prize
Whitehead Prize
The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London • 2001 M. McQuillan, A. N. Skorobogatov, V.
Mathematical Society to a mathematician working in the Smyshlyaev, J. R. King
United Kingdom who is at an early stage of their career. • 2002 Kevin Buzzard, Alessio Corti, Marianna
The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pio- Csörnyei, C. Teleman
neer J. H. C. Whitehead. • 2003 N. Dorey, T. Hall, M. Lackenby, M. Nazarov
More specifically, the person being considered for the • 2004 M. Ainsworth, V. Markovic, Richard Thomas[4],
award must be resident in the United Kingdom on 1 Jan- U. L. Tillmann
uary of the award year or must have been educated in the • 2005 Ben Green, Bernd Kirchheim, Neil Strickland,
United Kingdom. Also, the candidate must have less than Peter Topping
15 years of work at the postdoctorate level and must not • 2006 Raphaël Rouquier, Jonathan Sherratt, Paul
have received any other prizes from the Society. Sutcliffe, Agata Smoktunowicz
Since the inception of the prize, no more than two • 2007 Nikolay Nikolov, Oliver Riordan, Ivan Smith,
could be awarded per year, but in 1999 this was increased Catharina Stroppel
to four “to allow for the award of prizes across the whole • 2008 Timothy Browning, Tamás Hausel, Martin
of mathematics, including applied mathematics, mathe- Hairer, Nina Snaith
matical physics, and mathematical aspects of computer • 2009 Mihalis Dafermos, Cornelia Druţu, Robert James
science.” Marsh, Markus Owen
The Senior Whitehead Prize has similar residence re- • 2010 Harald Helfgott, Jens Marklof, Lasse Rempe,
quirements and rules concerning prior prizes, but is in- Françoise Tisseur
tended to recognize more experienced mathematicians. • 2011 Jonathan Bennett, Alexander Gorodnik, Barbara
Niethammer, Alexander Pushnitski
List of Whitehead Prize win-
ners[1] External links
• Prize rules
• 1979 Peter Cameron, P. T. Johnstone This article incorporates material from Whitehead Prize on
• 1980 H. G. Dales, J. Toby Stafford[2] PlanetMath, which is licensed under the Creative Commons At-
• 1981 Nigel Hitchin, D. F. Holt tribution/Share-Alike License.
• 1982 John M. Ball, Martin J. Taylor This article incorporates material from list of mathemati-
• 1983 Jeff Paris, A. A. Ranicki cians awarded the Whitehead Prize on PlanetMath, which is
• 1984 Simon Donaldson, S. J. Patterson licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike
• 1985 D. Segal, P. J. Rippon License.
• 1986 Terence Lyons, David A. Rand[3]
• 1987 C. M. Series, A. H. Schofield
• 1988 S. M. Rees, P. J. Webb, Andrew Wiles See also
• 1989 D. E. Evans, Frances Kirwan, R. S. Ward • Fröhlich Prize
• 1990 M. T. Barlow, Richard Taylor, A. J. Wassermann • Senior Whitehead Prize
• 1991 N. S. Manton, A. J. Scholl • Berwick Prize
• 1992 K. M. Ball, Richard Borcherds • Naylor Prize and Lectureship
• 1993 D. J. Benson, Peter B. Kronheimer, D. G. • Pólya Prize (LMS)
Vassiliev • De Morgan Medal
• 1994 P. H. Kropholler, R. S. MacKay
• 1995 Timothy Gowers, J. Rickard
• 1996 J. Roe, Y. Safarov References
• 1997 Brian Bowditch, A. Grigor’yan, D. Joyce [1] List of LMS prize winners, LMS website [1] accessed
• 1998 S. J. Chapman, Igor Rivin, J. Nekovar July 2011
• 1999 M. R. Bridson, G. Friesecke, N. J. Higham, Imre [2] University of Manchester website [2] accessed 28
Leader December 2008
• 2000 M. A. J. Chaplain, G. M. Stallard, Andrew M. [3] Biography on EPSRC website [3] accessed 27
Stuart, Burt Totaro December 2008
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[4] Imperial College web site
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