Davidson Prize

Davidson Prize

The Davidson Prize is the name of various academic prizes.

* Davidson Prize for Probability at the University of Cambridge
* Davidson Prize for Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow [ [http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/award/?id=4 Davidson Prize at the University of Glasgow] ]
* Davidson Prize in Accountancy at University of Aberdeen [ [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/registry/prizelist06.shtml Davidson Prize at the University of Aberdeen] ]
* Lee Davidson Prize for Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Leeds [ [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/linguistics/graduation_files/StudentPrizes.html Student Graduation Prizes at the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds] ]

Rollo Davidson Prize at the University of Cambridge

In 1970, Rollo Davidson, a Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge died on Piz Bernina. A fund was established in his memory by publishing some papers [ [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/volumes.html Rollo Davidson Trust] ] . A prize from the Rollo Davidson trust fund is awarded annually to young probabilists. The trust was founded in 1975 and has been awarded every year since [ [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/award08.pdf List of winners of the Rollo Davidson Prize] ] .

* 1976 Brian D. Ripley
* 1977 Olav Kallenberg
* 1978 Zhen-ting Hou
* 1979 Frank Kelly
* 1980 David John Aldous and Erik Jørgensen
* 1981 John Charles Gittins
* 1982 Ruben Ambartzumian and Persi Diaconis
* 1983 Edwin Perkins
* 1984 Martin Thomas Barlow and Leonard Christopher Gordon Rogers
* 1985 Piet Groeneboom and Terence John Lyons
* 1986 Peter Hall and Jean-Francois Le Gall
* 1987 Yao-chi Yu, Jie-zong Zou and Andrew Carverhill
* 1988 Peter Baxendale, Imre Ruzsa and Gabor Szekely
* 1989 Geoffrey Grimmett and Remi Leandre
* 1990 Steven Evans
* 1991 Alain-Sol Sznitman
* 1992 Krzysztof Burdzy
* 1993 Gerard Ben Arous and Robin Pemantle
* 1994 Thomas Mountford and Laurent Saloff-Coste
* 1995 Philippe Biane Yuval Peres
* 1996 Bruce Driver and Jean Bertoin
* 1997 James Norris and Martin Schweizer
* 1998 Davar Khoshnevisan and Wendelin Werner
* 1999 Raphael Cerf and Gareth Roberts
* 2000 Kurt Johansson and David Wilson
* 2001 Richard Kenyon
* 2002 Stanislav Smirnov and Balaji Prabhakar
* 2003 Alice Guionnet
* 2004 Alexander Holroyd and Itai Benjamini
* 2005 Olle Haggstrom and Neil O’Connell
* 2006 Scott Sheffield
* 2007 Remco van der Hofstad
* 2008 Brian Rider and Bálint Virág

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