Bôcher Memorial Prize

The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). It is awarded every five years for a notable research memoir in analysis that has appeared during the past six years in a recognized North American journal or was authored by a member of the Society. This provision, introduced in 1971 and modified in 1993, is a liberalization of the terms of the award. The current award is $5,000.

Past winners

* 1923 George David Birkhoff
* 1924 Eric Temple Bell, Solomon Lefschetz
* 1928 James W. Alexander
* 1933 Marston Morse, Norbert Wiener
* 1938 John von Neumann
* 1943 Jesse Douglas
* 1948 Albert Schaeffer, Donald Spencer
* 1953 Norman Levinson
* 1959 Louis Nirenberg
* 1964 Paul Cohen
* 1969 Isadore Singer
* 1974 Donald Samuel Ornstein
* 1979 Alberto Calderón
* 1984 Luis Caffarelli
* 1984 Richard Melrose
* 1989 Richard Schoen
* 1994 Leon Simon
* 1999 Demetrios Christodoulou , Sergiu Klainerman, Thomas Wolff
* 2002 Daniel Tataru, Terence Tao, Lin Fanghua
* 2005 Frank Merle
* 2008 Alberto Bressan, Charles Fefferman, Carlos Kenig

External links

* [http://www.ams.org/prizes/bocher-prize.html AMS Prize - Bôcher Memorial Prize]
* [http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/AMSBocherPrize.html MacTutor History of Mathematics - Winners of the Bôcher Prize]