The Frederick W. Lanchester Prize is an

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often s ...

prize (U.S. $5,000 cash prize and medallion) given for the best contribution to

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

and the management sciences published in English. It is named after Frederick W. Lanchester.

Past winners

Past winners of the prize are: * 1954 Leslie C. Edie * 1955 Georges Brigham * 1956

Richard E. Zimmerman Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and ...

* 1957 Maurice F. C . Allais, Clayton J. Thomas and Walter L. Deemer, Jr * 1959

Robert E. Chandler The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...

Robert Herman Robert Herman (August 29, 1914 – February 13, 1997) was an American astronomer, best known for his work with Ralph Alpher in 1948–50, on estimating the temperature of cosmic microwave background radiation from the Big Bang explosion. Biogra ...

Elliott Waters Montroll Elliott Waters Montroll (May 4, 1916, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – December 3, 1983, in Chevy Chase, Maryland) was an American scientist and mathematician. Education Elliott Montroll was born on May 4, 1916, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and ...

and A.M. Lee * 1960 Herman F. Karreman * 1961 Elio M. Ventura * 1962 Robert M. Oliver and A.H. Samuel * 1963

Paul C. Gilmore Paul may refer to: People * Paul (given name), a given name, including a list of people * Paul (surname), a list of people * Paul the Apostle, an apostle who wrote many of the books of the New Testament * Ray Hildebrand, half of the singing duo P ...

and Ralph E. Gomory * 1964 Frederick M. Scherer * 1965

Michel Balinski Michel Louis Balinski (born Michał Ludwik Baliński; October 6, 1933 – February 4, 2019) was an American and French applied mathematician, economist, operations research analyst and political scientist. Educated in the United States, from 198 ...

and Rufus Isaacs * 1966

Stafford Beer Anthony Stafford Beer (25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at Manchester Business School. He is known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics, and for his ...

* 1967

Douglass J. Wilde Douglass may refer to: Surname * Douglass (surname) * Douglass family, family of Frederick Douglass ** Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), noted abolitionist Given name *Douglass Dumbrille (1889–1974), Canadian actor in early Hollywood *Douglas ...

and Charles S. Beightler * 1968 Anthony V. Fiacco, Garth P. McCormick and

Philip M. Morse Philip McCord Morse (August 6, 1903 – 5 September 1985), was an American physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S. Biography Morse gr ...

* 1969 Harvey M. Wagner * 1971 Edward E. David, John G. Truxal and E.J. Piel * 1972 Richard C. Larson * 1973

Herbert Scarf Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf (July 25, 1930 – November 15, 2015) was an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. Education and career Scarf was born in Philadelphia, the son of Jewish emigrants from ...

, Terje Hansen, Louis M. Goreux and

Alan S. Manne Alan may refer to: People *Alan (surname), an English and Kurdish surname *Alan (given name), an English given name **List of people with given name Alan ''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.'' *Al ...

* 1974 Peter Kolesar and Warren E. Walker * 1975 Lawrence D. Stone * 1976 Ralph Keeney,

Howard Raiffa Howard Raiffa ( ; January 24, 1924 – July 8, 2016) was an American academic who was the Frank P. Ramsey Professor (Emeritus) of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He ...

and

Leonard Kleinrock Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Kleinrock made several ...

* 1977

Richard Karp Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most notable for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turin ...

, Gérard P. Cornuéjols,

Marshall L. Fisher Marshall may refer to: Places Australia *Marshall, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria ** Marshall railway station Canada * Marshall, Saskatchewan * The Marshall, a mountain in British Columbia Liberia * Marshall, Liberia Marshall Is ...

and

George Nemhauser George Lann Nemhauser (born 1937). is an American operations researcher, the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the former president of the Opera ...

* 1979

Michael R. Garey Michael Randolph Garey (born November 19, 1945) is a computer science researcher, and co-author (with David S. Johnson) of ''Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-completeness''. He and Johnson received the 1979 Frederick W. ...

and David S. Johnson * 1980 David M. Eddy * 1981 David Hopkins and William Massy * 1982 Karl-Heinz Borgwardt * 1983

Martin Shubik Martin Shubik (1926–2018) was an American mathematical economist who specialized in game theory, defense analysis, and the theory of money. The latter was his main research interest and he referred to it as his "white whale". He also coined th ...

, Ellis L. Johnson, Manfred W. Padberg and Harlan Crowder * 1984

Narendra Karmarkar Narendra Krishna Karmarkar (born 1956) is an Indian mathematician. He developed Karmarkar's algorithm. He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher. He invented one of the first probably polynomial time algorithms for linear programming, w ...

and

Robert Tarjan Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the discoverer of several graph theory algorithms, including his strongly connected components algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees a ...

* 1985 Michael Maltz * 1986

Alexander Schrijver Alexander (Lex) Schrijver (born 4 May 1948 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of discrete mathematics and optimization at the University of Amsterdam and a fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Am ...

and Peter Whittle * 1988 Robin Roundy * 1989 Jean Walrand, George L. Nemhauser and Laurence A. Wolsey * 1990

Alvin E. Roth Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the George Gund (philanthropist), Gund professor of economics and business administration emeri ...

and Marilda Sotomayor * 1991 Frank P. Kelly * 1992 Masakazu Kojima,

Nimrod Megiddo Nimrod Megiddo () is a mathematician and computer scientist. He is a research scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center and Stanford University. His interests include combinatorial optimization, algorithm design and analysis, game theory, and ...

, Shinji Mizuno, Toshihito Noma and Akiko Yoshise * 1993 Thomas L. Magnanti, James B. Orlin and Ravindra K. Ahuja * 1994 Edward Kaplan, Richard Cottle, Jong-Shi Pang and

Richard Stone Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (30 August 1913 – 6 December 1991) was an eminent British economist. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College and King's College at the University of Cambridge. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Memori ...

* 1995

Robert J. Aumann Robert John Aumann (Yisrael Aumann, ; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University o ...

, Michael B. Maschler, Martin L. Puterman, and Richard E. Stearns * 1996 George Fishman * 1997

R. Tyrrell Rockafellar Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar (born February 10, 1935) is an American mathematician and one of the leading scholars in optimization theory and related fields of analysis and combinatorics. He is the author of four major books including the landmark ...

and

Roger J-B Wets Roger Jean-Baptiste Robert Wets (February 1937 – April 1, 2025) was a Belgian stochastic programming and a leader in calculus of variations, variational analysis who publishes as Roger J-B Wets. His research, expositions, graduate students, and ...

* 2000 Olvi Mangasarian * 2001 J. Michael Harrison * 2003 Nicholas Vieille and Ward Whitt * 2004

ERCIM news Lex Schrijver wins Lanchester Prize.
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William J. Cook William John Cook (born October 18, 1957 in New Jersey) is an American operations researcher and mathematician, and Professor of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He was elected a member of the National Academy of En ...

* 2008

Warren P. Adams Warren most commonly refers to: * Warren (burrow), a network dug by rabbits * Warren (name), a given name and a surname, including lists of persons so named Warren may also refer to: Places Australia * Warren (biogeographic region) * Warren ...

and

Hanif D. Sherali In Islam, the terms (; , ) and (; ) are primarily used to refer to pre-Islamic Arabians who were Abrahamic monotheists. Muslims regard these people favorably for shunning Arabian polytheism and instead solely worshipping the God of Abraham ...

, and Lawrence M. Wein * 2009 ''Not awarded'' * 2010 ''Not awarded'' * 2011

David Easley David Alan Easley (born 1950s) is an American economist. Easley is the Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Science and is a professor of information science at Cornell University. He was previously an overseas fellow of Churchill College at Ca ...

and

Jon Kleinberg Jon Michael Kleinberg (born 1971) is an American computer scientist and the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University known for his work in algorithms and networks. He is a recipient of the Nevan ...

* 2012 ''Not awarded'' * 2013 David P. Williamson and David Shmoys * 2014 ''Not awarded'' * 2015 Michele Conforti, Giacomo Zambell and Gérard P. Cornuéjols * 2016 ''Not awarded'' * 2017 ''Not awarded'' * 2018 ''Not awarded'' * 2019

Tim Roughgarden Timothy Avelin Roughgarden (born July 20, 1975) is an American computer scientist and a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Roughgarden's work deals primarily with game theoretic questions in computer science. Roughgarden rec ...

, Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur, N. Bora Keskin and Assaf Zeevi * 2020: Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Daniel Kuhn * 2021: Dimitris Bertsimas, Jack Dunn * 2022: Daniel Russo, Benjamin Van Roy,

Yurii Nesterov Yurii Nesterov is a Russian mathematician, an internationally recognized expert in convex optimization, especially in the development of efficient algorithms and numerical optimization analysis. He is currently a professor at the University of L ...

* 2023: Guanghui Lan, Rakesh V. Vohra * 2024: Itai Ashlagi, Mark Braverman, Yash Kanoria, Jacob Leshno, Peng Shi, Anatoli Juditsky,

Arkadi Nemirovski Arkadi Nemirovski (; born March 14, 1947) is a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a leader in continuous optimization and is best known for his wo ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lanchester Prize Business and industry awards American awards Awards established in 1954

Past winners

See also

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