The Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics is awarded biennially from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

. It was initially endowed along with a companion prize, the

Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics The Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics is awarded biennially from Northwestern University. It was initially endowed along with a companion prize, the Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics. Both are part a $14 million donation from the Nem ...

, 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. As of 2020, the award carries a $200,000 stipend and the scholar spends several weeks in residence at Northwestern University.

Recipients

Following recipients received this award: *1994 Yuri I. Manin *1996 Joseph B. Keller *1998

John H. Conway John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches o ...

*2000

Edward Witten Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical and theoretical physicist. He is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Witten is a researcher in string theory, q ...

*2002

Yakov G. Sinai Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (russian: link=no, Я́ков Григо́рьевич Сина́й; born September 21, 1935) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems. He contributed to the modern metric theory of dy ...

*2004 Mikhail Gromov *2006 Robert Langlands *2008

Simon Donaldson Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. H ...

*2010

Terence Tao Terence Chi-Shen Tao (; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes ...

*2012

Ingrid Daubechies Baroness Ingrid Daubechies ( ; ; born 17 August 1954) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression. Daubechies is recognized for her study of the mathematical methods that enhance ...

*2014

Michael J. Hopkins Michael Jerome Hopkins (born April 18, 1958) is an American mathematician known for work in algebraic topology. Life He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1984 under the direction of Mark Mahowald, with thesis ''Stable Decompositi ...

*2016

János Kollár János Kollár (born 7 June 1956) is a Hungarian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Professional career Kollár began his studies at the Eötvös University in Budapest and later received his PhD at Brandeis University in 1984 ...

*2018 Assaf Naor *2020 Nalini Anantharaman *2022 Bhargav BhattLaureate 2022
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