Bôcher Memorial Prize

Past winners

• 1923 George David Birkhoff for
• 1924 Eric Temple Bell for
• 1924 Solomon Lefschetz for
• 1928 James W. Alexander II for
• 1933 Marston Morse for
• 1933 Norbert Wiener for
• 1938 John von Neumann for
• 1943 Jesse Douglas for
• 1948 Albert Schaeffer and Donald Spencer for
• 1953 Norman Levinson for "his contributions to the theory of linear, nonlinear, ordinary, and partial differential equations contained in his papers of recent years"
• 1959 Louis Nirenberg for "his work in partial differential equations"
• 1964 Paul Cohen for
• 1969 Isadore Singer for "his work on the index problem" and especially
• 1974 Donald Samuel Ornstein for
• 1979 Alberto Calderón for "his fundamental work on the theory of singular integrals and partial differential equations" and in particular
• 1984 Luis Caffarelli for "his deep and fundamental work in nonlinear partial differential equations, in particular his work on free boundary problems, vortex theory and regularity theory"
• 1984 Richard Melrose for "his solution of several outstanding problems in diffraction theory and scattering theory and for developing the analytical tools needed for their resolution"
• 1989 Richard Schoen for "his work on the application of partial differential equations to differential geometry," in particular
• 1994 Leon Simon for:
• 1999 Demetrios Christodoulou for:
• 1999 Sergiu Klainerman for:
• 1999 Thomas Wolff for "his work in harmonic analysis," "harmonic measure, and unique continuation," including
• 2002 Daniel Tătaru for
• 2002 Terence Tao for
• 2002 Lin Fanghua for
• 2005 Frank Merle for "his fundamental work in the analysis of nonlinear dispersive equations" including:
• 2008 Alberto Bressan for:
• 2008 Charles Fefferman for "his many fundamental contributions to different areas of analysis" including
• 2008 Carlos Kenig for "his important contributions to harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and nonlinear dispersive PDE" including:
• 2011 Assaf Naor for "introducing new invariants of metric spaces and for applying his new understanding of the distortion between various metric structures to theoretical computer science" and his "remarkable work on a lower bound in the sparsest cut problem" including
• 2011 Gunther Uhlmann for "his fundamental work on inverse problems" including
• 2014 Simon Brendle for "his outstanding solutions of long standing problems in geometric analysis", including
• 2017 András Vasy for
• 2020 Camillo De Lellis for "his innovative point of view on the construction of continuous dissipative solutions of the Euler equations, which ultimately led to Isett's full solution of the Onsager conjecture, and his spectacular work in the regularity theory of minimal surfaces, where he completed and improved Almgren's program" including:
• 2020 Lawrence Guth for "his deep and influential development of algebraic and topological methods for partitioning the Euclidean space and multi-scale organization of data, and his powerful applications of these tools in harmonic analysis, incidence geometry, analytic number theory, and partial differential equations" including:
• 2020 Laure Saint-Raymond for "her transformative contributions to kinetic theory, fluid dynamics, and Hilbert's sixth problem on 'developing mathematically the limiting processes...which lead from the atomistic view to the laws of motion of continua,'" including: