The Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics is awarded biennially from Northwestern University. It was initially endowed along with a companion prize, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, as part of a $14 million donation from the Nemmers brothers. They envisioned creating an award that would be as prestigious as the Nobel prize. To this end, the majority of the income earned from the endowment is returned to the principal in order to increase the size of the award. Even so, it is still "believed to be the largest monetary awards in the United States designated specifically for academic excellence in mathematics".[1]
Currently, the award carries a $200,000 stipend and the scholar spends several weeks in residence at Northwestern University.[2]
Recipients
Following recipients received this award:[2]
2018 Assaf Naor
2016 János Kollár [3]
2014 Michael J. Hopkins [4]
2012 Ingrid Daubechies
2010 Terence Tao
2008 Simon Donaldson
2006 Robert Langlands
2004 Mikhail Gromov
2002 Yakov G. Sinai
2000 Edward Witten
1998 John H. Conway
1996 Joseph B. Keller
1994 Yuri I. Manin
See also
List of mathematics awards
References
Observer Online, April 2004. http://www.northwestern.edu/observer/issues/2004-04-08/nemmers.html
"The Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics". Northwestern University. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
Nemmers Prize 2016
Nemmers Prize 2014
External links
Citations page
Nemmers Prize 2012
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Hellenica World - Scientific Library
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