NAS Award in Mathematics
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The NAS Award in Mathematics is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
"for excellence of research in the mathematical sciences published within the past ten years." It has been awarded every four years since 1988.
United States National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
"for excellence of research in the mathematical sciences published within the past ten years." It has been awarded every four years since 1988.
List of NAS Award in Mathematics winners
- 2008: Clifford H. TaubesClifford TaubesClifford Henry Taubes is the William Petschek Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and works in gauge field theory, differential geometry, and low-dimensional topology.-Early career:Taubes received his Ph.D...
- 2004: Dan-Virgil VoiculescuDan-Virgil VoiculescuDan-Virgil Voiculescu is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in single operator theory, operator K-theory and von Neumann algebras. More recently, he developed free probability theory....
- 2000: Ingrid DaubechiesIngrid DaubechiesIngrid Daubechies is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She was between 2004 and 2011 the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in the mathematics and applied mathematics departments at Princeton University. In January 2011 she moved to Duke University as a Professor in mathematics. She is the first...
- 1996: Andrew J. WilesAndrew WilesSir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory...
- 1992: Robert MacPherson
- 1988: Robert P. LanglandsRobert LanglandsRobert Phelan Langlands is a mathematician, best known as the founder of the Langlands program. He is an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study...
External links
- NAS Award in Mathematics National Academy of Sciences web site