The Berwick Prize and Senior Berwick Prize are two prizes of the
London Mathematical Society
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical S ...
awarded in alternating years in memory of
William Edward Hodgson Berwick
William Edward Hodgson Berwick (11 March 1888 in Dudley Hill, Bradford – 13 May 1944 in Bangor, Gwynedd) was a British mathematician, specializing in algebra, who worked on the problem of computing an integral basis for the algebraic inte ...
, a previous Vice-President of the LMS. Berwick left some money to be given to the society to establish two prizes. His widow Daisy May Berwick gave the society the money and the society established the prizes, with the first Senior Berwick Prize being presented in 1946 and the first Junior Berwick Prize the following year. The prizes are awarded "in recognition of an outstanding piece of mathematical research ... published by the Society" in the eight years before the year of the award.
The Berwick Prize was known as the Junior Berwick Prize up to 1999, and was given its current name for the 2001 award.
Senior Berwick Prize winners
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[List of LMS prize winners]
LMS website, accessed July 2011
Berwick Prize winners
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See also
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List of mathematics awards.
References
{{Awards of the London Mathematical Society
British science and technology awards
Awards established in 1946
1946 establishments in England
Awards of the London Mathematical Society