The Jacques Herbrand Prize (
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: Prix Jacques Herbrand) is an award given by the
French Academy of Sciences
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to young researchers (up to 35 years) in the field of
mathematics
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,
physics
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, 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 .
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Until 2002, the prize was given each year in both fields; since 2003, it is given alternatingly.
It is endowed with 15000,
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Jacques Herbrand (12 February 1908 – 27 July 1931) was a French mathematician. Although he died at age 23, he was already considered one of "the greatest mathematicians of the younger generation" by his professors Helmut Hasse and Richard Cour ...
(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
Laurent Lafforgue (; born 6 November 1966) is a French mathematician. He has made outstanding contributions to Langlands' program in the fields of number theory and analysis, and in particular proved the Langlands conjectures for the automorphism ...
, mathematics; Yvan Castin, physics
* 2002: Christophe Breuil
Christophe Breuil (; born 1968) is a French people, French mathematician, who works in arithmetic geometry and algebraic number theory.
Work
With Fred Diamond, Richard Taylor (mathematician), Richard Taylor and Brian Conrad in 1999, he proved th ...
, 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
Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (; born 5 October 1973) is a French politician and mathematician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010, and he w ...
, mathematics
* 2008: Lucien Besombes, physics
* 2009: Artur Ávila, 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 ...
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* 2018 : Alexei Chepelianskii,
* 2019 : Nicolas Curien
* 2020 : Basile Gallet
See also
* Herbrand Award The Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning is an award given by the Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE), Inc., (although it predates the formal incorporation of CADE) to honour persons or groups for important cont ...
— by the Conference on Automated Deduction, for contributions in the field of automated deduction
* List of mathematics awards
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* List of physics awards
This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.
The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a lis ...
References
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