The Frederick W. Lanchester Prize is an Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences prize (U.S. $5,000 cash prize and medallion) given for the best contribution to

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...

and the management sciences published in English. It is named after

Frederick W. Lanchester Frederick William Lanchester LLD, Hon FRAeS, FRS (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946), was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations ...

Past winners

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* 1954 Leslie C. Edie * 1955 Georges Brigham * 1956 Richard E. Zimmerman * 1957 Maurice F. C . Allais, Clayton J. Thomas and Walter L. Deemer, Jr * 1959 Robert E. Chandler, Robert Herman,

Elliott Waters Montroll Elliott Waters Montroll (May 4, 1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States – December 3, 1983 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States) was an American scientist and mathematician. Education Elliott Montroll was born on May 4, 1916 in Pit ...

and A.M. Lee * 1960 Herman F. Karreman * 1961 Elio M. Ventura * 1962 Robert M. Oliver and A.H. Samuel * 1963 Paul C. Gilmore and

Ralph E. Gomory Ralph Edward Gomory (born May 7, 1929) is an American applied mathematician and executive. Gomory worked at IBM as a researcher and later as an executive. During that time, his research led to the creation of new areas of applied mathematics. ...

* 1964 Frederick M. Scherer * 1965

Michel Balinski Michel Louis Balinski (born Michał Ludwik Baliński; October 6, 1933 – February 4, 2019) was an applied mathematician, economist, operations research analyst and political scientist. As a Polish-American, educated in the United States, he liv ...

and Rufus Isaacs * 1966 Stafford Beer * 1967 Douglass J. Wilde and Charles S. Beightler * 1968 Anthony V. Fiacco, Garth P. McCormick and

Philip M. Morse Philip McCord Morse (August 6, 19035 September 1985), was an American physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S. Biography Morse graduat ...

* 1969 Harvey M. Wagner * 1971 Edward E. David, John G. Truxal and E.J. Piel * 1972 Richard C. Larson * 1973 Herbert Scarf, Terje Hansen, Louis M. Goreux and

Alan S. Manne Alan may refer to: People *Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname *Alan (given name), an English given name **List of people with given name Alan ''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.'' *Al ...

* 1974 Peter Kolesar and Warren E. Walker * 1975

Lawrence D. Stone Lawrence may refer to: Education Colleges and universities * Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States * Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States Preparator ...

* 1976 Ralph Keeney, Howard Raiffa and Leonard Kleinrock * 1977 Richard Karp,

Gérard P. Cornuéjols Gérard ( French: ) is a French masculine given name and surname of Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constitu ...

, Marshall L. Fisher and George Nemhauser * 1979

Michael R. Garey Michael Randolph Garey (born November 19, 1945) is a computer science researcher, and co-author (with David S. Johnson) of '' Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-completeness''. He and Johnson received the 1979 Frederick W. ...

and David S. Johnson * 1980

David M. Eddy David M. Eddy is an American physician, mathematician, and healthcare analyst who has done seminal work in mathematical modeling of diseases, clinical practice guidelines, and evidence-based medicine. Four highlights of his career have been sum ...

* 1981 David Hopkins and William Massy * 1982 Karl-Heinz Borgwardt * 1983 Martin Shubik,

Ellis L. Johnson Ellis Lane Johnson is the Professor Emeritus and the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1988, Johnson was elected a member ...

, Manfred W. Padberg and Harlan Crowder * 1984

Narendra Karmarkar Narendra Krishna Karmarkar (born Circa 1956) is an Indian Mathematician. Karmarkar developed Karmarkar's algorithm. He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher. He invented one of the first provably polynomial time algorithms for linear prog ...

and Robert Tarjan * 1985

Michael Maltz Michael D. Maltz (born 1938) is an American electrical engineer, criminologist and Emeritus Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in criminal justice, and adjunct professor and researcher at Ohio State University. Biography Michael Ma ...

* 1986 Alexander Schrijver and Peter Whittle * 1988 Robin Roundy * 1989

Jean Walrand Jean Camille Walrand is a professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been on the faculty of ...

, George L. Nemhauser and Laurence A. Wolsey * 1990

Alvin E. Roth Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the George Gund (philanthropist), Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritu ...

and

Marilda Sotomayor Marilda A. Oliveira Sotomayor (born March 13, 1944) is a Brazilian mathematician and economist known for her research on auction theory and stable matchings. She is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Brazilian Society of Econometric ...

* 1991 Frank P. Kelly * 1992 Masakazu Kojima,

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, Shinji Mizuno, Toshihito Noma and Akiko Yoshise * 1993

Thomas L. Magnanti Thomas Lee Magnanti (born 1945) is an American engineer and Institute Professor and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Magnanti served as the founding president of the Singapore University of T ...

, James B. Orlin and Ravindra K. Ahuja * 1994 Edward Kaplan, Richard Cottle, Jong-Shi Pang and Richard Stone * 1995

Robert J. Aumann Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: , Yisrael Aumann; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew ...

, Michael B. Maschler, Martin L. Puterman, and

Richard E. Stearns Richard Edwin Stearns (born July 5, 1936) is a prominent computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational co ...

* 1996 George Fishman * 1997

R. Tyrrell Rockafellar Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar (born February 10, 1935) is an American mathematician and one of the leading scholars in optimization theory and related fields of analysis and combinatorics. He is the author of four major books including the landmark ...

and

Roger J-B Wets Roger Jean-Baptiste Robert Wets (born February 1937) is a "pioneer" in stochastic programming and a leader in variational analysis who publishes as Roger J-B Wets. His research, expositions, graduate students, and his collaboration with R. Tyrr ...

* 2000 Olvi Mangasarian * 2001

J. Michael Harrison John Michael Harrison (born 1944) is an American researcher, known for his contributions to the theory of operations research, in particular stochastic networks and financial engineering. He has authored two books and nearly 90 journal articles. ...

* 2003 Nicholas Vieille and

Ward Whitt Ward Whitt (born 1942) is an American professor of operations research and management sciences. He is the Wai T. Chang Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. His research focuses on queueing theory, per ...

* 2004 Alexander SchrijverERCIM news Lex Schrijver wins Lanchester Prize.
/ref> * 2005 Kalyan T. Talluri and Garrett J. van Ryzin * 2006

Paul Glasserman Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...

* 2007 David L. Applegate,

Robert E. Bixby Robert L. Bixby is the Executive Director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan grassroots organization that educates the public about fiscal responsibility. The Coalition was founded in 1992, and Bixby was named the Executive Director in 19 ...

, Vašek Chvátal, and

William J. Cook William John Cook (born October 18, 1957 in New Jersey) is an American operations researcher and mathematician, and Professor of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He was elected a member of the National Academy of En ...

* 2008 Warren P. Adams and Hanif D. Sherali, and Lawrence M. Wein * 2009 ''Not awarded'' * 2010 ''Not awarded'' * 2011

David Easley David Alan Easley (born 1950s) is an American economist. Easley is the Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Science and is a professor of information science at Cornell University. He was previously an overseas fellow of Churchill College at C ...

and Jon Kleinberg * 2012 ''Not awarded'' * 2013

David P. Williamson David Paul Williamson is a professor of operations research at Cornell University, and the editor-in-chief of the ''SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics''. He earned his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supe ...

and

David Shmoys David Bernard Shmoys (born 1959) is a Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1 ...

* 2014 ''Not awarded'' * 2015 Michele Conforti, Giacomo Zambell and

* 2016 ''Not awarded'' * 2017 ''Not awarded'' * 2018 ''Not awarded'' * 2019

Tim Roughgarden Timothy Avelin Roughgarden is an American computer scientist and a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Roughgarden's work deals primarily with game theoretic questions in computer science. Roughgarden received his Ph.D. from C ...

, Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur, N. Bora Keskin and Assaf Zeevi * 2020: Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Daniel Kuhn * 2021: Dimitris Bertsimas, Jack Dunn

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lanchester Prize Business and industry awards American awards Awards established in 1954

Past winners

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