TheWhitehead Prize is awarded yearly by theLondon Mathematical Society to multiple mathematicians working in theUnited Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory ofhomotopy theory pioneerJ. H. C. Whitehead.
More specifically, people being considered for the award must be resident in the United Kingdom on 1 January of the award year or must have been educated in the United Kingdom. Also, the candidates must have less than 15 years of work at the postdoctorate level and must not have received any other prizes from the Society.
Since the inception of the prize, no more than two could be awarded per year, but in 1999 this was increased to four "to allow for the award of prizes across the whole of mathematics, including applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and mathematical aspects of computer science".
TheSenior Whitehead Prize has similar residence requirements and rules concerning prior prizes, but is intended to recognize more experienced mathematicians.
List of Whitehead Prize winners
[edit]- 1979Peter Cameron,Peter Johnstone
- 1980 H. G. Dales,Toby Stafford [de][1]
- 1981Nigel Hitchin,Derek F. Holt
- 1982John M. Ball,Martin J. Taylor
- 1983Jeff Paris,Andrew Ranicki
- 1984Simon Donaldson,Samuel James Patterson
- 1985Dan Segal,Philip J. Rippon
- 1986Terence Lyons,David A. Rand[2]
- 1987Caroline Series,Aidan H. Schofield
- 1988S. M. Rees, P. J. Webb,Andrew Wiles
- 1989D. E. Evans,Frances Kirwan,R. S. Ward
- 1990Martin T. Barlow,Richard Taylor,Antony Wassermann
- 1991Nicholas Manton,A. J. Scholl [de]
- 1992K. M. Ball,Richard Borcherds
- 1993 D. J. Benson,Peter B. Kronheimer, D. G. Vassiliev
- 1994 P. H. Kropholler,R. S. MacKay
- 1995Timothy Gowers,Jeremy Rickard
- 1996John Roe, Y. Safarov
- 1997Brian Bowditch,A. Grigor'yan [de],Dominic Joyce
- 1998 S. J. Chapman,Igor Rivin,Jan Nekovář
- 1999Martin Bridson,G. Friesecke [de],Nicholas Higham,Imre Leader
- 2000M. A. J. Chaplain,Gwyneth Stallard,Andrew M. Stuart,Burt Totaro
- 2001M. McQuillan,A. N. Skorobogatov,V. Smyshlyaev,J. R. King
- 2002Kevin Buzzard,Alessio Corti,Marianna Csörnyei,C. Teleman [de]
- 2003N. Dorey,T. Hall,Marc Lackenby,M. Nazarov
- 2004M. Ainsworth,Vladimir Markovic,Richard Thomas,[3]Ulrike Tillmann
- 2005Ben Green,Bernd Kirchheim,Neil Strickland [de],Peter Topping
- 2006Raphaël Rouquier,Jonathan Sherratt,Paul Sutcliffe,Agata Smoktunowicz
- 2007Nikolay Nikolov,Oliver Riordan,Ivan Smith,Catharina Stroppel
- 2008Timothy Browning,Tamás Hausel,Martin Hairer,Nina Snaith
- 2009Mihalis Dafermos,Cornelia Druțu,Bethany Rose Marsh,Markus Owen
- 2010Harald Helfgott,Jens Marklof,Lasse Rempe-Gillen,Françoise Tisseur
- 2011Jonathan Bennett,Alexander Gorodnik [de],Barbara Niethammer,Alexander Pushnitski
- 2012Toby Gee,Eugen Vărvărucă,Sarah Waters,Andreas Winter
- 2013Luis Fernando Alday,André Neves,Tom Sanders,Corinna Ulcigrai
- 2014Clément Mouhot,Ruth Baker,Tom Coates,Daniela Kühn andDeryk Osthus[4]
- 2015Peter Keevash,James Maynard,Christoph Ortner,Mason Porter,Dominic Vella,David Loeffler andSarah Zerbes
- 2016A. Bayer,G. Holzegel,Jason P. Miller,Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb[5]
- 2017Julia Gog,András Máthé,Ashley Montanaro,Oscar Randal-Williams,Jack Thorne,Michael Wemyss[6]
- 2018Caucher Birkar,Ana Caraiani,Heather Harrington,Valerio Lucarini,Filip Rindler,Péter Varjú[7]
- 2019Alexandr Buryak,David Conlon,Toby Cubitt,Anders Hansen,William Parnell,Nick Sheridan[8]
- 2020Maria Bruna,Ben Davison,Adam Harper,Holly Krieger,Andrea Mondino,Henry Wilton[9]
- 2021Jonathan Evans,Patrick Farrell,Agelos Georgakopoulos,Michael Magee,Aretha Teckentrup,Stuart White[10]
- 2022Jessica Fintzen,Ian Griffiths,Dawid Kielak,Chunyi Li,Tadahiro Oh,Euan Spence[11]
- 2023David Bate,Soheyla Feyzbakhsh,András Juhász,Mahesh Kakde,Yankı Lekili,Marie-Therese Wolfram[12]
- 2024Sabine Bögli,Viveka Erlandsson,James Newton,Clarice Poon,Julian Sahasrabudhe,Alessandro Sisto[13]
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