The Jacques Herbrand Prize (

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: Prix Jacques Herbrand) is an award given by the

French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...

to young researchers (up to 35 years) in the field of

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

, and their non-military applications. It was created in 1996, and first awarded in 1998. In 2001, it was renamed to Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand .''Prix Jacques Herbrand''
a
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/ref> Until 2002, the prize was given each year in both fields; since 2003, it is given alternatingly. It is endowed with 15000,
(Feb 2015 version) a
www.academie-sciences.fr
/ref> later with 20000 euros, and named in honor of the French logician Jacques Herbrand (1908-1931).

Recipients

* 1998:

Loïc Merel Loïc Merel (born 13 August 1965) is a French mathematician. His research interests include modular forms and number theory. Career Born in Carhaix-Plouguer, Brittany, Merel became a student at the École Normale Supérieure. He finished his doc ...

, mathematics;

Franck Ferrari Franck Ferrari (12 January 1963 – 18 June 2015) was a French baritone. Biography Born in Nice, in a family of Italian origin, of a boxer father and a basketball mother and captain of the Cavigal Nice Basket, Ferrari studied at the Conser ...

, physics * 1999: , mathematics; Brahim Louis, physics * 2000: Albert Cohen (mathematician), mathematics; Philippe Bouyer, physics * 2001: Laurent Lafforgue, mathematics; Yvan Castin, physics * 2002: Christophe Breuil, mathematics; Pascal Salière, physics * 2003:

Wendelin Werner Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematica ...

, mathematics * 2004:

Nikita Nekrasov Nikita Alexandrovich Nekrasov (russian: Ники́та Алекса́ндрович Некра́сов; born 10 April 1973) is a mathematical and theoretical physicist at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and C.N.Yang Institute for The ...

, physics * 2005:

Franck Barthe Franck Barthe is a French mathematician. He was awarded the European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) prize in 2004. He is working as a professor of mathematics at Paul Sabatier University. Work Franck Barthe is known for his reverse form of the ...

, mathematics * 2006:

Maxime Dahan Maxime is a French given name that may refer to: As a name *Maxime Bernier (born 1963), former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs *Maxime Bôcher, American mathematician *Maxime Boyer, Canadian professional wrestler *Maxime Du Camp, French writer ...

, physics * 2007: Cédric Villani, mathematics * 2008: Lucien Besombes, physics * 2009:

Artur Ávila Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (born 29 June 1979) is a Brazilian and naturalized French mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first La ...

, mathematics * 2010:

Julie Grollier Julie Grollier is a French physicist working in the field of spintronics. Education and career Grollier studied at the French engineering school Supélec, before doing an internship in the Laboratory of Cristallography and Materials Science at ...

, physics * 2011:

Nalini Anantharaman Nalini Anantharaman (born 26 February 1976) is a French mathematician who has won major prizes including the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012. Life Nalini Florence Anantharaman was born in Paris in 1976 to two mathematicians. Her father and her mot ...

, mathematics * 2012:

Patrice Bertet Patrice is a given name meaning ''noble'' or ''patrician'', related to the names Patrick and Patricia. In English, Patrice is often a feminine first name. In French, it is used as a masculine first name. Popularity In the United States, the popula ...

, physics * 2013: , mathematics * 2014:

Aleksandra Walczak Aleksandra M. Walczak is a theoretical biophysicist. She works on stochastic gene expression, immunology, evolution and collective motion at Ecole Normale Supérieure where she is a research director. Education Walczak completed her master's d ...

, physics * 2015: , mathematics * 2016:

Yasmine Amhis Yasmine Amhis (born 1982, Algiers) is a French-Algerian particle physicist. In 2016, she was awarded the Jacques Herbrand Prize. She is the granddaughter of the Algerian poet and writer Djoher Amhis-Ouksel. Early life and education In 1999, a ...

, physics * 2017:

Hugo Duminil-Copin Hugo Duminil-Copin (born 26 August 1985) is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022. Biography The son of a middle school sports teacher and a former female dancer who became a primary ...

, mathematics Laureate 2017
/ref> * 2018 : Alexei Chepelianskii, * 2019 : Nicolas Curien * 2020 : Basile Gallet

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