The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). It is awarded every five years for a notable research memoir in analysis that has appeared during the past six years in a recognized North American journal or was authored by a member of the Society. This provision, introduced in 1971 and modified in 1993, is a liberalization of the terms of the award. The current award is $5,000. The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and education, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards to mathematicians. ...

Past winners

• 1923 George David Birkhoff
• 1924 Eric Temple Bell
• 1924 Solomon Lefschetz
• 1928 James W. Alexander
• 1933 Marston Morse
• 1933 Norbert Wiener
• 1938 John von Neumann
• 1943 Jesse Douglas
• 1948 Albert Schaeffer and Donald Spencer
• 1953 Norman Levinson
• 1959 Louis Nirenberg
• 1964 Paul Cohen
• 1969 Isadore Singer
• 1974 Donald Samuel Ornstein
• 1979 Alberto Calderón
• 1984 Luis Caffarelli
• 1984 Richard Melrose
• 1989 Richard Schoen
• 1994 Leon Simon
• 1999 Dmitry Christodoulou, Sergiu Klainerman, Thomas Wolff
• 2002 Daniel Tataru, Terence Tao, Fanghua Lin
• 2005 Frank Merle

George David Birkhoff (21 March 1884 - 12 November 1944) was an American mathematician, and one of the most important leaders in mathematics in the USA in his generation. ... Eric Temple Bell (1883 - 1960) was a mathematician born in Scotland who lived in the USA from 1903 until his death. ... Solomon Lefschetz (3 September 1884-5 October 1972) was a US mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations. ... J. W. Alexander James Waddell Alexander II (September 19, 1888 – September 23, 1971) was an important topologist of the pre-WWII era and part of an influential Princeton topology elite, which included Oswald Veblen, Solomon Lefschetz, and others. ... Harald Calvin Marston Morse (24 March 1892 - 22 June 1977) was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory. ... Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 - March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician, known as the founder of cybernetics. ... A separate article covers Saint John Neumann, the American priest. ... Jesse Douglas (July 3, 1897 - October 7, 1965) was an American mathematician. ... Donald C. Spencer (April 25, 1912 - December 23, 2001) was an American mathematician, known for major work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial differential equations. ... Norman Levinson (August 11, 1912 - October 10, 1975) was an American mathematician. ... Louis Nirenberg (born 28 February 1925) is a Canadian-born mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations. ... Paul Joseph Cohen (born April 2, 1934) is an American mathematician. ... Isadore Singer (born 1924) is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Thomas Wolff (born July 14, 1954, New York City; died, July 31, 2000, Kern County), a noted mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. ... Terence Tao (born July 17, 1975, Adelaide, Australia), is a mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. ...

External links

• AMS Prize - Bôcher Memorial Prize (http://www.ams.org/prizes/bocher-prize.html)
• MacTutor History of Mathematics - Winners of the Bôcher Prize (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/AMSBocherPrize.html)