Leroy P. Steele Prize

The Leroy P. Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society, for distinguished research work and writing in the field of mathematics. Since 1993 there has been a formal division into three categories.

The prizes have been given since 1970, from a bequest of Leroy P. Steele, and were set up in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood and William Caspar Graustein. The way the prizes are awarded was changed in 1976 and 1993, but the initial aim of honoring expository writing as well as research has been retained. The prizes of $5,000 are not given on a strict national basis, but relate to mathematical activity in the USA, and writing in English (originally, or in translation).

The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement

*2008 George Lusztig
*2007 Henry P. McKean
*2006 Frederick W. Gehring, Dennis P. Sullivan
*2005 Israel M. Gelfand
*2004 Cathleen Synge Morawetz
*2003 Ron Graham, Victor Guillemin
*2002 Michael Artin, Elias Stein
*2001 Harry Kesten
*2000 Isadore M. Singer
*1999 Richard V. Kadison
*1998 Nathan Jacobson
*1997 Ralph S. Phillips
*1996 Goro Shimura
*1995 John T. Tate
*1994 Louis Nirenberg
*1993 Eugene B. Dynkin

The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition

*2008 Neil Trudinger
*2007 David Mumford
*2006 Lars V. Hörmander
*2005 Branko Grünbaum
*2004 John W. Milnor
*2003 John B. Garnett
*2002 Yitzhak Katznelson
*2001 Richard P. Stanley
*2000 John H. Conway
*1999 Serge Lang
*1998 Joseph H. Silverman
*1997 Anthony W. Knapp
*1996 Bruce C. Berndt, William Fulton
*1995 Jean-Pierre Serre
*1994 Ingrid Daubechies
*1993 Walter Rudin

The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research

*2008 Endre Szemerédi
*2007 Karen Uhlenbeck
*2006 Clifford S. Gardner, John M. Greene, Martin D. Kruskal, Robert M. Miura
*2005 Robert P. Langlands
*2004 Lawrence C. Evans and Nicolai V. Krylov
*2003 Ronald Jensen and Michael Morley
*2001 Leslie F. Greengard and Vladimir Rokhlin
*2002 Mark Goresky and Robert MacPherson
*2000 Barry Mazur
*1999 Michael G. Crandall, John F. Nash
*1998 Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger
*1997 Mikhael Gromov
*1996 Daniel Stroock and S. R. S. Varadhan
*1995 Edward Nelson
*1994 Louis de Branges
*1993 George Daniel Mostow

ee also

* List of prizes
* Prizes named after people

External links

* [http://www.ams.org/prizes/steele-prize.html Citations page]
* [http://www.ams.org/prizes/steele-prize.html Leroy P. Steele Prizes] on the American Mathematical Society website
* [http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/4/7/123915/1838 Kuro5hin] article on the Fields and Abel prizes.