The Sophie Germain Prize (in
French: ''Prix Sophie Germain'') is an annual mathematics prize from the
French Academy of Sciences conferred since the year 2003. It is named after the French mathematician
Sophie Germain
Marie-Sophie Germain (; 1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father's lib ...
, and comes with a prize of €8000.
Prix Sophie Germain page officielle
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"The Sophie Germain Prize of the Institut de France has been awarded every year by the French Academy of Sciences since 2003 to researchers who have carried out fundamental research in mathematics. Through this prize, the Academy of Sciences furthers its mission of encouraging the advancement of science."
Recipients
* 2003 Claire Voisin
Claire Voisin (born 4 March 1962) is a French mathematician known for her work in algebraic geometry. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and holds the chair of Algebraic Geometry at the Collège de France.
Work
She is noted for ...
* 2004 Henri Berestycki
* 2005 Jean-François Le Gall
* 2006 Michael Harris
* 2007 Ngô Bảo Châu
Ngô Bảo Châu (, born June 28, 1972) is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad). He is the first ...
* 2008 Håkan Eliasson
* 2009 Nessim Sibony
* 2010 Guy Henniart
* 2011 Yves Le Jan
* 2012 Lucien Birgé
* 2013 Albert Fathi
Albert Fathi (born 27 October 1951, in Egypt) is an Egyptian- French mathematician. He specializes in dynamical systems and is currently a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Fathi attended the ''Collège des frères Lasalle'' in Ca ...
* 2014 Bernhard Keller
* 2015 Carlos Simpson
Carlos Tschudi Simpson (born 30 June 1962) is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.
Simpson received his Ph.D. in 1987 from Harvard University, where he was supervised by Wilfried Schmid; his thesis was titled ''Systems of ...
* 2016 François Ledrappier
* 2017 Xiaonan Ma
Xiaonan Ma (; born 1972) is a Chinese mathematician working in global analysis and local index theory.
Career
Xiaonan Ma obtained his Bachelor-Diploma from the University of Wuhan and received his Ph.D. in 1998 under the direction of Jean-Miche ...
* 2018 Isabelle Gallagher
Isabelle Gallagher (born 27 October 1973) is a French mathematician. Her research concerns partial differential equations such as the Navier–Stokes equations, wave equation, and Schrödinger equation, as well as harmonic analysis of the Heis ...
* 2019 Bertrand Toën
* 2020 Georges Skandalis
* 2021 Étienne Fouvry
* 2022 Thierry Bodineau
See also
* List of mathematics awards
References
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Awards of the French Academy of Sciences
Mathematics awards