The Jacques Deruyts Prize, or Prix Jacques Deruyts, is a monetary prize that recognizes distinguished research contributions in Mathematics. It was first awarded in 1952 by the
Académie Royale de Belgique
The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB) is a non-governmental association which promotes and organises science and the arts in Belgium by coordinating the national and international activities of its constituent academies su ...
, Classe des Sciences and is named for
Jacques Deruyts (full name Deruyts, Joseph Gustave Jacques) who was a Belgian
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
, known as a pioneer of
group representation theory.
Deruyts received his doctorate in 1883 from the
University of Liège
The University of Liège (french: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French. As of 2020, ULiège is ranked in the 301 ...
Recipients
The recipients of the Jacques Deruyts Prize are:
* 1952: Paul Gillis
* 1956: Jean Teghem
* 1960: Félix Alardin
* 1964: No award
* 1968: No award
* 1972: Lucien Waelbroeck
* 1976: Jean-Pierre Gossez
* 1980: Paul Godin
* 1984: Jean Schmets
* 1988: Marc De Wilde
* 1992: Christian Fabry
* 1996:
Jean Bricmont
Jean Bricmont (; born 12 April 1952) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), he works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. Since 2004, ...
* 2000: Jean Schmets
* 2004:
F. Thomas Bruss Franz Thomas Bruss is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he had been director of "Mathématiques Générales" and co-director of the probability chair, and where he continues his research as invited profe ...
* 2008: Thierry De Pauw
* 2012: Denis Bonheure
* 2016: Siegfried Hörmann
* 2020: Jean Van Schaftingen
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See also
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List of mathematics awards
This list of mathematics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for mathematics. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors the award, but awards may be open to mathematicians from around the wor ...
References
Mathematics awards