The Prix de l'État (English: National Prize) of 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 ...

is a science award founded by the

French National Convention The National Convention (french: link=no, Convention nationale) was the parliament of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for the rest of its existence during the French Revolution, following the two-year National ...

in 1795 and financed by state funds. It is awarded in the fields of mathematics, physics, mechanics, computer science, earth sciences, biology and chemistry and is endowed with 7600 euros. It is awarded annually, with the exception of physics, which is awarded every four years.

Laureates since 1960

* 1960:

Szolem Mandelbrojt Szolem Mandelbrojt (10 January 1899 – 23 September 1983) was a Polish-French mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1938 to 1972, where he held the Chair of Analytical Mechanics ...

* 1961: Albert Policard * 1962:

Jacques Dixmier Jacques Dixmier (born 24 May 1924) is a French mathematician. He worked on operator algebras, especially C*-algebras, and wrote several of the standard reference books on them, and introduced the Dixmier trace and the Dixmier mapping. Biograph ...

* 1963: Pierre Nicolle * 1964:

Laurent Schwartz Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 19 ...

* 1965: René Wurmser * 1966:

André Guinier André Guinier (1 August 1911 – 3 July 2000) was a French physicist who did important work in the field of X-ray diffraction and solid-state physics. He worked at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, then taught at the University o ...

* 1967:

Jean Dausset Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (19 October 1916 – 6 June 2009) was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell fo ...

* 1968:

Gustave Choquet Gustave Choquet (; 1 March 1915 – 14 November 2006) was a French mathematician. Choquet was born in Solesmes, Nord. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creati ...

* 1969:

Xavier Duval Xavier "Zav" Duval is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama '' Holby City'', played by actor Marcus Griffiths. He first appeared in the series twenty episode "Hard Day's Night", broadcast on 20 February 2018. Xavier arrives at Holby Cit ...

* 1970:

René Thom René Frédéric Thom (; 2 September 1923 – 25 October 2002) was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958. He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became w ...

* 1971: Pierre Chatelain * 1972:

Pierre Lelong Pierre Lelong (14 March 1912 Paris – 12 October 2011)
at the académie des sciences was a Fr ...

* 1973: Pierre Douzou * 1974: André Martin * 1975:

Marcel Bessis Marcel Claude Bessis (15 November 1917 – 28 March 1994) was a French physician known for research on blood cells. Bessis was born in Tunis on 15 November 1917. He was educated at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris, France. He developed an int ...

* 1976:

Jacques Tits Jacques Tits () (12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric. Life and ...

* 1977: Hélène Charniaux-Cotton * 1978: Noël Felici * 1979: Marc Fellous * 1980:

Jean-Pierre Kahane Jean-Pierre Kahane (11 December 1926 – 21 June 2017) was a French mathematician with contributions to harmonic analysis. Career Kahane attended the École normale supérieure and obtained the ''agrégation'' of mathematics in 1949. He then wor ...

* 1981:

Lionel Salem Lionel Salem (born 5 March 1937, Paris) is a French theoretical chemist, former research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), retired since 1999. He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Scie ...

* 1982:

Evry Schatzman Evry Léon Schatzman (16 September 1920 – 25 April 2010) was a French scientist hailed as "the father of modern French astrophysics". Background His father, Benjamin Schatzman, was a dentist born in Tulcea, Romania, and emigrated at a young ag ...

* 1983: Jean-Charles Schwartz * 1984:

Yves Meyer Yves F. Meyer (; born 19 July 1939) is a French mathematician. He is among the progenitors of wavelet theory, having proposed the Meyer wavelet. Meyer was awarded the Abel Prize in 2017. Biography Born in Paris to a Jewish family, Yves Meyer s ...

* 1985: Stratis Avrameas * 1986:

Claude Lorius Lorius (born 1932) is a French glaciologist. He is director emeritus of research at CNRS. He was the director of the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement in Grenoble from 1983 to 1988. He has taken part in more than 20 po ...

* 1987: Jean Normant * 1988:

Franck Laloë Franck Laloë (born May 28, 1940) is a French quantum physicist, author, and open archive initiator. He is emeritus research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Education and career Laloë was born in Rabat, ...

* 1989: Francis Durst * 1990:

Jean-Pierre Hansen Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS (born 10 May 1942) is a Luxembourgian chemist and an emeritus professor of the University of Cambridge. Education Hansen gained a PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1969, the same year working as a staff scientist for th ...

* 1991: Maurice Israël * 1992:

Gilles Pisier Gilles I. Pisier (born 18 November 1950) is a professor of mathematics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and a distinguished professor and A.G. and M.E. Owen Chair of Mathematics at the Texas A&M University. He is known for his contribution ...

* 1993: Jacques Taxi * 1994: Roger Cayrel * 1995:

Jean Talairach Jean Talairach (January 15, 1911 – March 15, 2007) was a psychiatrist and neurosurgeon who practiced at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center in Paris, and who is noted for the Talairach coordinates, which are relevant in stereotactic neurosurgery. ...

* 1996:

Jean-Michel Bony Jean-Michel Bony (born 1 February 1942 in Paris) is a French mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. He is known for his work on microlocal analysis and pseudodifferential operators. Education and career Bony completed his undergrad ...

* 1997:

Jean-Loup Gervais Jean-Loup Gervais (born 10 September 1936 in Paris) is a French theoretical physicist. Gervais studied physics and mathematics in Paris, where he graduated in 1961 and got his Ph.D. in 1965 as a student of Claude Bouchiat and Philippe Meyer in Ors ...

* 1998: Pierre Gadal * 1999: Bernard Maurey * 2000:

Jean-Paul Behr Jean-Paul Behr (born 29 June 1947) is a French chemist, elected member of the French Academy of Sciences (since December 2008). Research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS, he is known for his work in the field of ...

* 2001: Camille Cohen * 2002: Émile Miginiac * 2003:

Louis Boutet de Monvel Louis Boutet de Monvel (22 June 1941 – 25 December 2014) was a French mathematician who worked on functional analysis. He was a student of Laurent Schwartz in Paris and was professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University. He was married to ...

* 2004: Joël Moreau * 2005: Jean-Michel Gérard * 2006: Hervé Sentenac * 2007: Nicolas Burq * 2008: Anny Jutand * 2009: François Amiranoff, Victor Malka,

Patrick Mora Patrick Mora (born 1952) is a French theoretical plasma physicist who specializes in laser-plasma interactions. He was awarded the 2014 Hannes Alfvén Prize and 2019 Edward Teller Award for his contributions to the field of laser-plasma physics ...

* 2010: Richard Miles * 2011:

Bernard Helffer Bernard Helffer (born 8 January 1949, Paris) is a French mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, spectral theory, and mathematical physics. He is the son of the pianist Claude Helffer and the musicologist Mireille Helffer. ...

* 2012: Michel Ephritikhine * 2013: Andreas Hoecker * 2015: Yves Guivarc'h * 2016: Christian Serre * 2017: Pierre Le Doussal * 2018: Christian Giaume, François Michel * 2019: Michela Varagnolo, Éric Vasserot * 2020: Anna Proust * 2021: Marie-Hélène Schune * 2022: Christophe Plomion

References

{{reflist Lists of award winners Awards established in 1795 Awards of the French Academy of Sciences