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
• 1924 Solomon Lefschetz
• 1928 James W. Alexander
• 1933 Marston Morse
• 1933 Norbert Wiener
• 1938 John von Neumann
• 1943 Jesse Douglas
• 1948 Albert Schaeffer and 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 Dmitry Christodoulou, Sergiu Klainerman, Thomas Wolff
• 2002 Daniel Tataru, Terence Tao, Fanghua Lin
• 2005 Frank Merle

External links

• AMS Prize – Bôcher Memorial Prize
• MacTutor History of Mathematics – Winners of the Bôcher Prize