The Jacques Herbrand Prize (

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: Prix Jacques Herbrand) is an award given by the

French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (, ) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific method, scientific research. It was at the forefron ...

to young researchers (up to 35 years) in the fields of

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and

physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

, and their non-military applications. The prize was created in 1996, and first awarded in 1998. In 2001, it was renamed the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand .''Prix Jacques Herbrand''
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/ref> From 1998 until 2002, both a mathematics prize and a physics prize were awarded every year; from 2003 until 2021, a mathematrics prize was awarded in odd numbered years and a physics prize in even ones; in 2022, the earlier protocol was reinstated. As of 2015, winners were awarded €15,000; this sum was later increased to €20,000.
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/ref> The prize is named after the French logician

Jacques Herbrand Jacques Herbrand (12 February 1908 – 27 July 1931) was a French mathematician. Although he died at age 23, he was already considered one of "the greatest mathematicians of the younger generation" by his professors Helmut Hasse and Richard Coura ...

(1908-1931).

Recipients

* 1998:

Loïc Merel Loïc Merel (born 13 August 1965) is a French mathematician. His research interests include modular forms and number theory. Career Born in Carhaix-Plouguer, Brittany, Merel became a student at the École Normale Supérieure. He finished his doc ...

, mathematics;

Franck Ferrari Franck Ferrari (12 January 1963 – 18 June 2015) was a French baritone. Biography Born in Nice, in a family of Italian origin, of a boxer father and a basketball mother and captain of the Cavigal Nice Basket, Ferrari studied at the Conserva ...

, physics * 1999: , mathematics; Brahim Louis, physics * 2000: Albert Cohen (mathematician), mathematics; Philippe Bouyer, physics * 2001:

Laurent Lafforgue Laurent Lafforgue (; born 6 November 1966) is a French mathematician. He has made outstanding contributions to Langlands' program in the fields of number theory and Mathematical analysis, analysis, and in particular proved the Langlands conjecture ...

, mathematics; Yvan Castin, physics * 2002:

Christophe Breuil Christophe Breuil (; born 1968) is a French mathematician, who works in arithmetic geometry and algebraic number theory. Work With Fred Diamond, Richard Taylor and Brian Conrad in 1999, he proved the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture, which pre ...

, mathematics; Pascal Salière, physics * 2003:

Wendelin Werner Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematic ...

, mathematics * 2004:

Nikita Nekrasov Nikita Alexandrovich Nekrasov (; born 10 April 1973) is a Russian mathematical and theoretical physicist at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and C.N.Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University in New York, and ...

, physics * 2005: Franck Barthe, mathematics * 2006:

Maxime Dahan Maxime is a French given name that may refer to: People *Maxime Bernier (born 1963), former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs *Maxime Bôcher (1867–1918), an American mathematician * Maxime Boyer (born 1984), a Canadian professional wrestler ...

, physics * 2007:

Cédric Villani Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (; born 5 October 1973) is a French politician and mathematician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010, and he ...

, mathematics * 2008: Lucien Besombes, physics * 2009:

Artur Ávila Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (; born 29 June 1979) is a Brazilian mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusop ...

, mathematics * 2010:

Julie Grollier Julie Grollier is a French physicist working in the field of spintronics. She won the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 2021. Education and career Grollier studied at the French engineering school Supélec, befo ...

, physics * 2011:

Nalini Anantharaman Nalini Anantharaman (born 26 February 1976) is a French mathematician who has won major prizes including the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012. Life Nalini Florence Anantharaman was born in Paris in 1976 to two mathematicians. Her father and her moth ...

, mathematics * 2012:

Patrice Bertet Patrice is a given name meaning ''noble'' or '' patrician'', related to the names Patrick and Patricia. In English, Patrice is often a feminine first name. In French, it is used as a masculine first name. Popularity In the United States, the popul ...

, physics * 2013: , mathematics * 2014:

Aleksandra Walczak Aleksandra M. Walczak is a theoretical biophysicist. She works on stochastic gene expression, immunology, evolution and collective motion at Ecole Normale Supérieure where she is a research director. Education Walczak completed her master's d ...

, physics * 2015: , mathematics * 2016:

Yasmine Amhis Yasmine Amhis (born 1982, Algiers) is a French-Algerian particle physicist. In 2016, she was awarded the Jacques Herbrand Prize. She is the granddaughter of the Algerian poet and writer Djoher Amhis-Ouksel. Early life and education In 1999, ...

, physics * 2017:

Hugo Duminil-Copin Hugo Duminil-Copin (born 26 August 1985) is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022. Biography The son of a middle school sports teacher and a former female dancer who became a primary ...

, mathematics Laureate 2017
/ref> * 2018 : Alexei Chepelianskii, physics * 2019 : Nicolas Curien, mathematics * 2020 : Basile Gallet, physics * 2021 : Olivier Benoist, mathematics * 2022 : Igor Ferrier-Barbut, mathematics, and Emmanuel Flurin, physics * 2023 : Kestutis Cesnavicius, mathematics, and Vivian Poulin-Détolle, physics

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