Charles Lagrange Prize, or Prix Charles Lagrange, is a

monetary Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primary functions which distinguish money are ...

prize, recognizing the best mathematical or experimental work contributing to the progress of mathematical knowledge in the world. It was first awarded in 1952 by the

Académie Royale de Belgique The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB) is a non-governmental association which promotes and organises science and the arts in Belgium by coordinating the national and international activities of its constituent academies su ...

, Classe des Sciences. Recipients may be

Belgian Belgian may refer to: * Something of, or related to, Belgium * Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent * Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German *Ancient Belgian language, an extinct languag ...

or foreign.

Recipients

The recipients of the Charles Lagrange Prize are: * 2012: Aida Alvera-Azcárate * 2008: Frederik J. Simons * 2000: Viviane Pierrard * 2000: Louis François * 1992: Christian Tricot * 1992: Salim Djenidi * 1988:

Véronique Dehant Véronique Dehant is a Belgian geodesist and geophysicist. She specializes in modeling the deformation of the Earth's interior in response to the planet's rotation and the gravitational forces exerted upon it by the Sun and Moon. She has used si ...

* 1984:

André Berger André Léon Georges Chevalier Berger (born July 30, 1942, Acoz) is a Belgian climatologist and professor. He is best known for his significant contribution to the renaissance and further development of the astronomical theory of paleoclimates a ...

* 1980: Augustinus Nolet * 1976: Carlo Denis * 1972:

Desmond King-Hele Desmond George King-Hele FRS (3 November 1927 at Seaford in Sussex – 25 December 2019) was a British physicist, poet and author who crossed the divide between the arts and science to write extensively about the life of Erasmus Darwin, whom he ...

* 1968: R.O. Vicente * 1964: Hitoshi Takeuchi * 1960: Jean Verbaandert * 1960: Paul Melchior * 1956: Jean Coulomb * 1952:

Beno Gutenberg Beno Gutenberg (; June 4, 1889 – January 25, 1960) was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague and mentor of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technolog ...

* 1948:

Harold Jeffreys Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His book, ''Theory of Probability'', which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the revival ...

* 1944: Georges Jean Maury * 1932: William Bowie

References

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