The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society to a mathematician working in the United Kingdom who is at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pioneer J. H. C. Whitehead.

More specifically, the person being considered for the award must be resident in the United Kingdom on January 1 of the award year or must have been educated in the United Kingdom. Also, the candidate 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.”

The Senior Whitehead Prize has similar residence requirements and rules concerning prior prizes, but is intended to recognize more experienced mathematicians.

[edit] List of Whitehead Prize winners

• 1979 Peter Cameron, P. T. Johnstone
• 1980 H. G. Dales, J. Toby Stafford^[1]
• 1981 Nigel Hitchin, D. F. Holt
• 1982 John M. Ball, Martin J. Taylor
• 1983 Jeff Paris, A. A. Ranicki
• 1984 Simon Donaldson, S. J. Patterson
• 1985 D. Segal, P. J. Rippon
• 1986 T. J. Lyons, David A. Rand^[2]
• 1987 C. M. Series, A. H. Schofield
• 1988 S. M. Rees, P. J. Webb, Andrew Wiles
• 1989 D. E. Evans, Frances Kirwan, R. S. Ward
• 1990 M. T. Barlow, Richard Taylor, A. J. Wassermann
• 1991 N. S. Manton, A. J. Scholl
• 1992 K. M. Ball, Richard Borcherds
• 1993 D. J. Benson, Peter B. Kronheimer, D. G. Vassiliev
• 1994 P. H. Kropholler, R. S. MacKay
• 1995 Timothy Gowers, J. Rickard
• 1996 J. Roe, Y. Safarov
• 1997 Brian Bowditch, A. Grigor'yan, D. Joyce
• 1998 S. J. Chapman, Igor Rivin, J. Nekovar
• 1999 M. R. Bridson, G. Friesecke, N. J. Higham, Imre Leader
• 2000 M. A. J. Chaplain, G. M. Stallard, A. M. Stuart, Burt Totaro
• 2001 M. McQuillan, A. N. Skorobogatov, V. Smyshlyaev, J. R. King
• 2002 Kevin Buzzard, Alessio Corti, Marianna Csörnyei, C. Teleman
• 2003 N. Dorey, T. Hall, M. Lackenby, M. Nazarov
• 2004 M. Ainsworth, V. Markovic, Richard Thomas^[3], U. L. Tillmann
• 2005 Ben Green, Bernd Kirchheim, Neil Strickland, Peter Topping
• 2006 Raphaël Rouquier, Jonathan Sherratt, Paul Sutcliffe, Agata Smoktunowicz
• 2007 Nikolay Nikolov, Oliver Riordan, Ivan Smith, Catharina Stroppel
• 2008 Timothy Browning, Tamas Hausel, Martin Hairer, Nina Snaith
• 2009 Mihalis Dafermos, Cornelia Druţu, Robert Marsh, Markus Owen

[edit] External links

• Prize rules

This article incorporates material from Whitehead Prize on PlanetMath, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

This article incorporates material from list of mathematicians awarded the Whitehead Prize on PlanetMath, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

[edit] References

1. ^ University of Manchester website [1] accessed 28/12/2008
2. ^ Biography on EPSRC website [2] accessed 27/12/2008
3. ^ Imperial College web site [3]