The Prix Francoeur, or Francoeur Prize, was an award granted by the

Institut de France The (; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the Académie Française. It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute ...

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, Fondation Francoeur to authors of works useful to the progress of pure and applied mathematics. Preference was given to young scholars or to geometricians not yet established. It was established in 1882 and has been discontinued. Prize winners * 1882–1888 — Emile Barbier * 1889–1890 — Maximilien Marie * 1891–1892 —

Augustin Mouchot Augustin Mouchot (; ; 7 April 1825 – 4 October 1912) was a 19th-century French inventor of the earliest solar-powered engine, converting solar energy into mechanical steam power. Background Mouchot was born in Semur-en-Auxois, France on 7 Apr ...

* 1893 — Guy Robin * 1894 — J. Collet * 1895 — Jules Andrade * 1896 — Alphonse Valson * 1897 — Guy Robin * 1898 — Aimé Vaschy * 1899 — Le Cordier * 1900 — Edmond Maillet * 1901 — Léonce Laugel * 1902–1904 — Emile Lemoine * 1905 — Xavier Stouff * 1906–1912 — Emile Lemoine * 1913–1914 — A. Claude * 1915 — Joseph Marty * 1916 — René Gateaux * 1917 — Henri Villat * 1918 —

Paul Montel Paul Antoine Aristide Montel (29 April 1876 – 22 January 1975) was a French mathematician. He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. Montel was a student of Émile ...

* 1919 — Georges Giraud * 1920–1921 —

René Baire René ('' born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the femin ...

* 1922 — Louis Antoine * 1923 — Gaston Bertrand * 1924 — Ernest Malo * 1925 — Georges Valiron * 1926 —

Gaston Julia Gaston Maurice Julia (3 February 1893 – 19 March 1978) was a French Algerian mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set. His works were popularized by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot; the Julia and Mandelbrot fractals are ...

* 1927 — Georges Cerf * 1928 — Szolem Mandelbrojt * 1929 — Paul Noaillon * 1930 — Eugène Fabry * 1931 —

Jacques Herbrand 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 Coura ...

* 1932 — Henri Milloux * 1933 — Paul Mentre * 1934 — Jean Favard * 1935 — André Weil * 1936 —

Claude Chevalley Claude Chevalley (; 11 February 1909 – 28 June 1984) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory and the theory of algebraic groups. He was a foun ...

* 1937 —

Jean Leray Jean Leray (; 7 November 1906 – 10 November 1998) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Life and career He was born in Chantenay-sur-Loire (today part of Nantes). He studied at Éc ...

* 1938 —

Jean Dieudonné Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné (; 1 July 1906 – 29 November 1992) was a French mathematician, notable for research in abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and functional analysis, for close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymo ...

* 1939 — Marcel Brelot * 1940 — Charles Ehresmann * 1941 — Paul Vincensini * 1942 — Paul Dubreil * 1943 —

René de Possel Lucien Alexandre Charles René de Possel (7 February 1905 – 1974) was a French mathematician, one of the founders of the Bourbaki group, and later a pioneer computer scientist, working in particular on optical character recognition. Life Pos ...

* 1944 — No award * 1945 — No award * 1946 —

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 ...

* 1952 — No award * 1957 —

Jean-Pierre Serre Jean-Pierre Serre (; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954, the Wolf Prize in 2000 and the ina ...

* 1962 —

Jean-Louis Koszul Jean-Louis Koszul (; January 3, 1921 – January 12, 2018) was a French mathematician, best known for studying geometry and discovering the Koszul complex. He was a second generation member of Bourbaki. Biography Koszul was educated at the in ...

* 1967 — Jacques Neveu * 1972 —

Pierre Gabriel Pierre Gabriel (1 August 1933 – 24 November 2015), also known as Peter Gabriel, was a French mathematician at the University of Strasbourg (1962–1970), University of Bonn (1970–1974) and University of Zürich (1974–1998) who worked on cat ...

* 1977 — Jean-Claude Tougeron * 1982 — François Laudenbach * 1987 —

Jean-Louis Loday Jean-Louis Loday (12 January 1946 – 6 June 2012) was a French mathematician who worked on cyclic homology and who introduced Leibniz algebras (sometimes called Loday algebras) and Zinbiel algebras. He occasionally used the pseudonym Guillaume Wil ...

* 1992 — Georges Skandalis

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{{reflist Mathematics awards French awards 1882 establishments in France

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