The Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society

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 (LMS) is currently awarded in odd numbered years in memory of John Henry Constantine Whitehead

J. H. C. Whitehead

John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS , known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai , in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960....

, president of the LMS between 1953 and 1955. The Prize is awarded to mathematician

Mathematician

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s normally resident in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 on 1 January of the relevant year. Selection criteria include work in, influence on or service to mathematics

Mathematics

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, or recognition of lecturing gifts in the field of mathematics. Previous recipients of top LMS prizes or medals are ineligible for nomination.

Prize winners

• 1974 Frank Adams
  Frank Adams
  John Frank Adams FRS was a British mathematician, one of the founders of homotopy theory.-Life:He was born in Woolwich, a suburb in south-east London. He began research as a student of Abram Besicovitch, but soon switched to algebraic topology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of...
  
  
• 1976 C. T. C. Wall
  C. T. C. Wall
  Charles Terence Clegg Wall is a leading British mathematician, educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is an emeritus professor of the University of Liverpool, where he was first appointed Professor in 1965...
  
  
• 1978 Ioan Mackenzie James
  Ioan James
  Ioan Mackenzie James is a British mathematician working in the field of topology particularly in homotopy theory.James was born in Croydon, Surrey, England, and was educated at St Paul's School, London and Queen's College, Oxford. In 1953 He earned a D. Phil...
  
  
• 1980 David George Kendall
  David George Kendall
  David George Kendall FRS was an English statistician, who spent much of his academic life in the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He worked with M. S...
  
  
• 1982 Erik Christopher Zeeman
  Erik Christopher Zeeman
  Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS , is a Japanese-born British mathematician known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory....
  
  
• 1984 John Trevor Stuart
  John Trevor Stuart
  John Trevor Stuart is a mathematician working in theoretical fluid mechanics, hydrodynamic stability of fluid flows and nonlinear partial differential equations....
  
  
• 1987 Robert Alexander Rankin
  Robert Alexander Rankin
  Robert Alexander Rankin was a Scottish mathematician who worked in analytic number theory.Rankin's father, the Revd Oliver Shaw Rankin, was a minister who later became Professor of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology in the University of Edinburgh.Rankin was born in Garlieston,...
  
  
• 1989 L.E. Fraenkel
• 1991 W. B. R. Lickorish
• 1993 Bryan Birch
• 1995 Colin J. Bushnell
• 1997 John H. Coates
• 1999 M.J.D. Powell
• 2001 D.W. Moore
• 2003 Peter M. Neumann
  Peter M. Neumann
  Peter Michael Neumann OBE is a British mathematician. He is the son of the mathematicians Bernhard Neumann and Hanna Neumann and, after gaining a B.A. from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1963, obtained his D.Phil from Oxford University in 1966...
  
  
• 2005 Keith Moffatt
  Keith Moffatt
  Henry Keith Moffatt FRS FRSE is a Scottish applied mathematician with principal research interests in the field of fluid dynamics.-Research:...
  
  
• 2007 Béla Bollobás
  Béla Bollobás
  Béla Bollobás FRS is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory and percolation. As a student, he took part in the first three International Mathematical Olympiads, winning two gold medals...
  
  
• 2009 Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya
  Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya
  Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya is a Russian mathematician, born in Leningrad in 1937. He made contributions to a wide array of areas of mathematical analysis. He is most well known for his work on Sobolev spaces, and in particular the relationship of Sobolev inequalities and isoperimetry.Maz'ya...
  
  
• 2011 Jonathan Pila
  Jonathan Pila
  Jonathan S. Pila is an Australian mathematician at the University of Oxford. He won the 2011 Clay Research Award for his resolution of the André–Oort conjecture in the case of products of modular curves. In June of 2011, he was awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society...
  
  

See also

• Whitehead Prize
  Whitehead Prize
  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...
  
  
• Fröhlich Prize
  Fröhlich Prize
  The Fröhlich Prize of the London Mathematical Society is awarded in even numbered years in memory of Albrecht Fröhlich. The prize is awarded for original and extremely innovative work in any branch of mathematics...
  
  
• Berwick Prize
• Naylor Prize and Lectureship
  Naylor Prize and Lectureship
  The Naylor Prize and lectureship in Applied Mathematics is a prize of the London Mathematical Society awarded every two years in memory of Dr V.D. Naylor. Only those resident in the United Kingdom are eligible for the prize. The prize is awarded for ".....
  
  
• Pólya Prize (LMS)
  Pólya Prize (LMS)
  The Pólya Prize is a prize in mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society. Second only to the triennial De Morgan Medal in prestige among the society's awards, it is awarded in the years that are not divisible by three – those in which the De Morgan Medal is not awarded...
  
  
• De Morgan Medal
  De Morgan Medal
  The De Morgan Medal is a prize for outstanding contribution to mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society. The Society's most prestigious award, it is given in memory of Augustus De Morgan, who was the first President of the society....