Whitehead Prize

Whitehead Prize
The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society to multiple mathematicians working in the United Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pioneer J. H. C. Whitehead.
More specifically, people being considered for the award must be resident in the United Kingdom on 1 January of the award year or must have been educated in the United Kingdom. Also, the candidates must have less than 15 years of work at the postdoctorate level and must not have received any other prizes from the Society.
Since the inception of the prize, no more than two could be awarded per year, but in 1999 this was increased to four "to allow for the award of prizes across the whole of mathematics, including applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and mathematical aspects of computer science".
The Senior Whitehead Prize has similar residence requirements and rules concerning prior prizes, but is intended to recognize more experienced mathematicians.
List of Whitehead Prize winners
1979 Peter Cameron, Peter Johnstone
1980 H. G. Dales,
1981 Nigel Hitchin, Derek F. Holt
1982 John M. Ball, Martin J. Taylor
1983 Jeff Paris, Andrew Ranicki
1984 Simon Donaldson, Samuel James Patterson
1985 Dan Segal, Philip J. Rippon
1986 Terence Lyons, David A. Rand
1987 Caroline Series, Aidan H. Schofield
1988 S. M. Rees, P. J. Webb, Andrew Wiles
1989 D. E. Evans, Frances Kirwan, R. S. Ward
1990 Martin T. Barlow, Richard Taylor, Antony Wassermann
1991 Nicholas Manton,
1992 K. M. Ball, Richard Borcherds
1993 D. J. Benson, Peter B. Kronheimer, D. G. Vassiliev
1994 P. H. Kropholler, R. S. MacKay
1995 Timothy Gowers, Jeremy Rickard
1996 John Roe, Y. Safarov
1997 Brian Bowditch Dominic Joyce
1998 S. J. Chapman, Igor Rivin, Jan Nekovář
1999 Martin Bridson Nicholas Higham, Imre Leader
2000 M. A. J. Chaplain, Gwyneth Stallard, Andrew M. Stuart, Burt Totaro
2001 M. McQuillan, A. N. Skorobogatov, V. Smyshlyaev, J. R. King
2002 Kevin Buzzard, Alessio Corti, Marianna Csörnyei,
2003 N. Dorey, T. Hall, Marc Lackenby, M. Nazarov
2004 M. Ainsworth, Vladimir Markovic, Richard Thomas, Ulrike Tillmann
2005 Ben Green, Bernd Kirchheim Peter Topping
2006 Raphaël Rouquier, Jonathan Sherratt, Paul Sutcliffe, Agata Smoktunowicz
2007 Nikolay Nikolov, Oliver Riordan, Ivan Smith, Catharina Stroppel
2008 Timothy Browning, Tamás Hausel, Martin Hairer, Nina Snaith
2009 Mihalis Dafermos, Cornelia Druțu, Bethany Rose Marsh, Markus Owen
2010 Harald Helfgott, Jens Marklof, Lasse Rempe-Gillen, Françoise Tisseur
2011 Jonathan Bennett Barbara Niethammer, Alexander Pushnitski
2012 Toby Gee, Eugen Vărvărucă, Sarah Waters, Andreas Winter
2013 Luis Fernando Alday, André Neves, Tom Sanders, Corinna Ulcigrai
2014 Clément Mouhot, Ruth Baker, Tom Coates, Daniela Kühn and Deryk Osthus
2015 Peter Keevash, James Maynard, Christoph Ortner, Mason Porter, Dominic Vella, David Loeffler and Sarah Zerbes
2016 A. Bayer, G. Holzegel, Jason P. Miller, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb
2017 Julia Gog, András Máthé, Ashley Montanaro, Oscar Randal-Williams, Jack Thorne, Michael Wemyss
2018 Caucher Birkar, Ana Caraiani, Heather Harrington, Valerio Lucarini, Filip Rindler, Péter Varjú
2019 Alexandr Buryak, David Conlon, Toby Cubitt, Anders Hansen, William Parnell, Nick Sheridan
2020 Maria Bruna, Ben Davison, Adam Harper, Holly Krieger, Andrea Mondino, Henry Wilton
2021 Jonathan Evans, Patrick Farrell, Agelos Georgakopoulos, Michael Magee, Aretha Teckentrup, Stuart White
2022 Jessica Fintzen, Ian Griffiths, Dawid Kielak, Chunyi Li, Tadahiro Oh, Euan Spence
See also
Fröhlich Prize
Senior Whitehead Prize
Shephard Prize
Berwick Prize
Naylor Prize and Lectureship
Pólya Prize (LMS)
De Morgan Medal
List of mathematics awards
References
External links
Prize rules
List of LMS prize winners
Awards established in 1979
British awards
Awards of the London Mathematical Society
Early career awards