The Frederick W. Lanchester Prize is an

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger o ...

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 decis ...

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

Past winners

Source
INFORMS
* 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 Robert Herman (August 29, 1914 – February 13, 1997) was an American scientist, best known for his work with Ralph Alpher in 1948–50, on estimating the temperature of cosmic microwave background radiation from the Big Bang explosion. Biograp ...

, Elliott Waters Montroll 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 li ...

and Rufus Isaacs * 1966

Stafford Beer Anthony Stafford Beer (25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics. ...

* 1967 Douglass J. Wilde and Charles S. Beightler * 1968 Anthony V. Fiacco, Garth P. McCormick and Philip M. Morse * 1969 Harvey M. Wagner * 1971 Edward E. David, John G. Truxal and E.J. Piel * 1972 Richard C. Larson * 1973

Herbert Scarf Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf (July 25, 1930 – November 15, 2015) was an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. Education and career Scarf was born in Philadelphia, the son of Jewish emigrants from ...

Terje Hansen Terje may refer to: * Terje (name), a form of the Scandinavian name Torgeir *Tria ( hu, Terje), a village in the commune of Derna, Bihor Derna ( hu, Felsőderna) is a commune in northeastern Bihor County, Crișana, Romania, 50 km from the ...

, Louis M. Goreux and Alan S. Manne * 1974 Peter Kolesar and Warren E. Walker * 1975 Lawrence D. Stone * 1976 Ralph Keeney,

Howard Raiffa Howard Raiffa (; January 24, 1924 – July 8, 2016) was an American academic who was the Frank P. Ramsey Professor (Emeritus) of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He w ...

and

Leonard Kleinrock Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and a long-tenured professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the early 1960s, Kleinrock pioneered the application of queueing theor ...

* 1977

Richard Karp Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most notable for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing ...

, Gérard P. Cornuéjols, Marshall L. Fisher and

George Nemhauser George Lann Nemhauser (born 1937). is an American operations researcher, the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the former president of the Oper ...

* 1979 Michael R. Garey and

David S. Johnson David Stifler Johnson (December 9, 1945 – March 8, 2016) was an American computer scientist specializing in algorithms and optimization. He was the head of the Algorithms and Optimization Department of AT&T Labs Research from 1988 to 2013, an ...

* 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 Martin Shubik (1926-2018) was an American mathematical economist who specialized in game theory, defense analysis, and the theory of money and financial institutions. The latter was his main research interest and he coined the term "mathematical ...

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 Manfred Wilhelm Padberg (October 10, 1941 in Bottrop, Germany- May 12, 2014) was a German mathematician who worked with linear and combinatorial optimization. He and Ellis L. Johnson won the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 2000. Biography Padbe ...

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 p ...

and

Robert Tarjan Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the discoverer of several graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees ...

* 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 Malt ...

* 1986

Alexander Schrijver Alexander (Lex) Schrijver (born 4 May 1948 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of discrete mathematics and optimization at the University of Amsterdam and a fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in ...

and Peter Whittle * 1988 Robin Roundy * 1989 Jean Walrand, 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 Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University.

and Marilda Sotomayor * 1991 Frank P. Kelly * 1992 Masakazu Kojima,

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, Shinji Mizuno, Toshihito Noma and Akiko Yoshise * 1993 Thomas L. Magnanti, James B. Orlin and Ravindra K. Ahuja * 1994 Edward Kaplan, Richard Cottle, Jong-Shi Pang and

Richard Stone Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (30 August 1913 – 6 December 1991) was an eminent British economist, educated at Westminster School and Gonville and Caius College and King's College at the University of Cambridge. In 1984, he was awarded ...

* 1995 Robert J. Aumann, Michael B. Maschler, Martin L. Puterman, and Richard E. Stearns * 1996 George Fishman * 1997 R. Tyrrell Rockafellar and Roger J-B Wets * 2000 Olvi Mangasarian * 2001 J. Michael Harrison * 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

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/ref> * 2005 Kalyan T. Talluri and Garrett J. van Ryzin * 2006 Paul Glasserman * 2007 David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby,

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

Jon Kleinberg Jon Michael Kleinberg (born 1971) is an American computer scientist and the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University known for his work in algorithms and networks. He is a recipient of the Nevanl ...

* 2012 ''Not awarded'' * 2013 David P. Williamson 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 Gérard P. Cornuéjols * 2016 ''Not awarded'' * 2017 ''Not awarded'' * 2018 ''Not awarded'' * 2019 Tim Roughgarden, Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur, N. Bora Keskin and Assaf Zeevi * 2020: Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Daniel Kuhn * 2021: Dimitris Bertsimas, Jack Dunn

References

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

Past winners

See also

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