The Poncelet Prize () is awarded 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 ...

. The prize was established in 1868 by the widow of General

Jean-Victor Poncelet Jean-Victor Poncelet (; 1 July 1788 – 22 December 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the Commanding General of the . He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work ''Traité des propriét� ...

for the advancement of the sciences. It was in the amount of 2,000

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(as of 1868), mostly for the work in

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematics, mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and Industrial sector, industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a ...

. The precise wording of the announcement by the academy varied from year to year and required the work be "in

mechanics Mechanics () is the area of physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among Physical object, physical objects. Forces applied to objects may result in Displacement (vector), displacements, which are changes of ...

", or "for work contributing to the progress of pure or applied mathematics", or simply "in applied mathematics", and sometimes included condition that the work must be "done during the ten years preceding the award."

19th century

Source: * (1868)

Alfred Clebsch Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19 January 1833 – 7 November 1872) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He attended the University of Königsberg and was habilitated at Humboldt ...

* (1869)

Julius von Mayer Julius Robert von Mayer (25 November 1814 – 20 March 1878) was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. He is best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation ...

* (1870)

Camille Jordan Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan (; 5 January 1838 – 22 January 1922) was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential ''Cours d'analyse''. Biography Jordan was born in Lyon and educated at ...

* (1871) Joseph Boussinesq * (1872) Amédée Mannheim, "for the general excellence of his geometrical disquisitions." * (1873) William Thomson, "for his magnificent works on the mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism." * (1874) Jacques Bresse, "for his work in applied mechanics." * (1875)

Gaston Darboux Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE (14 August 1842 – 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician. Life According to his birth certificate, he was born in Nîmes in France on 14 August 1842, at 1 am. However, probably due to the midn ...

, "for the ensemble of his mathematical work." * (1876) Xavier Kretz * (1877) Edmond Laguerre, "for his mathematical works." * (1878) Maurice Lévy * (1879) Théodore Moutard * (1880) Henry Léauté * (1881) Charles Auguste Briot * (1882)

Rudolf Clausius Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (; 2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888) was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle ...

* (1883)

Georges Henri Halphen Georges-Henri Halphen (; 30 October 1844, Rouen – 23 May 1889, Versailles) was a French mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geo ...

* (1884) Jules Hoüel * (1885)

Henri Poincaré Jules Henri Poincaré (, ; ; 29 April 185417 July 1912) was a French mathematician, Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosophy of science, philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathemati ...

* (1886)

Charles Émile Picard Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...

* (1887)

Paul Émile Appell :''M. P. Appell is the same person: it stands for Monsieur Paul Appell''. Paul Émile Appell (27 September 1855 in Strasbourg – 24 October 1930 in Paris) was a French mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. Appell polynomials and ...

* (1888) Édouard Collignon * (1889)

Édouard Goursat Édouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat (21 May 1858 – 25 November 1936) was a French mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his ''Cours d'analyse mathématique'', which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century. It s ...

* (1890)

Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero, 1st Marquis of Mulhacén, (14 April 1825 – 28 or 29 January 1891) was a Spanish divisional general and geodesist. He represented Spain at the 1875 Conference of the Metre Convention and was the first presid ...

, "for his dedication and the intelligent direction he gave to every matter related to his involvement at the

International Committee for Weights and Measures The General Conference on Weights and Measures (abbreviated CGPM from the ) is the supreme authority of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), the intergovernmental organization established in 1875 under the terms of the Metre C ...

. After more than twenty years of scrupulous studies, in 1889, and according to the resolutions of (the Convention of the Metre in) 1875, the new

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standards were distributed to countries in Europe and the Americas perpetuating the acceptance of the

metric system The metric system is a system of measurement that standardization, standardizes a set of base units and a nomenclature for describing relatively large and small quantities via decimal-based multiplicative unit prefixes. Though the rules gover ...

." * (1891) Marie Georges Humbert * (1892) Benjamin Baker and John Fowler * (1893) Gabriel Koenigs * (1894) Hermann Laurent, "for the whole of his mathematical works." * (1895) Gustave Robin * (1896)

Paul Painlevé Paul Painlevé (; 5 December 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French mathematician and statesman. He served twice as Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister of the French Third Republic, Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 A ...

, "for all of his mathematical work." * (1897) Roger Liouville * (1898)

Jacques Hadamard Jacques Salomon Hadamard (; 8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963) was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Biography The son of a tea ...

* (1899) Eugène Cosserat, "for the whole of his contributions to geometry and mechanics." * (1900) Léon Lecornu

20th century

* (1901)

Émile Borel Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (; 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French people, French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability. Biograp ...

* (1902) Maurice d'Ocagne * (1903)

David Hilbert David Hilbert (; ; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics and one of the most influential mathematicians of his time. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental idea ...

* (1904) Désiré André * (1905) Charles Lallemand (1857–1938) * (1906) Claude Guichard * (1907)

Charles Renard Charles Renard (1847–1905) born in Damblain, Vosges, was a French military engineer. Airships After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 he started work on the design of airships at the French army aeronautical department. Together with A ...

(posthumously) * (1908) Erik Ivar Fredholm, "for his researches on integral equations." * (1909) Comte de Sparre, "for his studies relating to gunnery and his works on mechanics." * (1910) Charles Riquier * (1911) Auguste Rateau * (1912) Edmond Maillet * (1913)

Maurice Leblanc Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; ; 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French ...

, "for the totality of his researches in mechanics." * (1914)

Henri Lebesgue Henri Léon Lebesgue (; ; June 28, 1875 – July 26, 1941) was a French mathematician known for his Lebesgue integration, theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration—summing the area between an ...

* (1915) Charles Rabut * (1916) Charles de la Vallée-Poussin * (1917) Jules Andrade, "for his work in applied mechanics, especially that dealing with chronometry." * (1918)

Joseph Larmor Sir Joseph Larmor (; 11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish mathematician and physicist who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. His most influential work was ...

* (1919) Prosper Charbonnier, "for his work on ballistics" * (1920)

Élie Cartan Élie Joseph Cartan (; 9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951) was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems (coordinate-free geometric formulation of PDEs), and differential geometry. He ...

, "for the whole of his work." * (1921) Jacques Charles Émile Jouguet * (1922) Jules Drach, "for the whole of his work in mathematics." * (1923) Auguste Boulanger (

posthumously Posthumous may refer to: * Posthumous award, an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death * Posthumous publication, publishing of creative work after the author's death * Posthumous (album), ''Posthumous'' (album), by Warne Marsh, 1 ...

), "for the whole of his scientific work." * (1924) Ernest Vessiot, "for the whole of his work in mathematics." * (1925) Denis Eydoux, "for the whole of his work in hydraulics." * (1926)

Paul Montel Paul Antoine Aristide Montel (29 April 1876 – 22 January 1975) was a French mathematician. He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. Montel was a student of Émile ...

, "for his mathematical work as a whole." * (1927) Henri Villat * (1929)

Alfred-Marie Liénard Alfred-Marie Liénard (2 April 1869 in Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; , or ) is a city and Communes of France, commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme (department), Somm ...

* (1930) Arnaud Denjoy, "for the whole of his mathematical works." * (1932) Raoul Bricard, "for his work in geometry." * (1934) René Maurice Fréchet, "for the whole of his mathematical works." * (1936) Paul Lévy, "for the whole of his mathematical works." * (1937) Joseph Bethenod, " for his work on mechanics and electricity." * (1938)

Szolem Mandelbrojt Szolem Mandelbrojt (10 January 1899 – 23 September 1983) was a Polish-French mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1938 to 1972, where he held the Chair of Analytical Mechanics ...

* (1939) Henri Bénard * (1942) René Garnier * (1945) Alphonse Demoulin * (1948) Georges Valiron * (1951) Joseph Kampé de Fériet * (1954) Georges Darmois * (1972)

Michel Lazard Michel Paul Lazard (5 December 1924 – 15 September 1987) was a French mathematician who worked on the theory of Lie groups in the context of analysis. Career and research Born in Paris, Lazard studied at the University of Paris– Sorbonne, ...

* (1975) Jean Céa * (1978) Henri Skoda * (1981) Philippe G. Ciarlet * (1987) Pierre Ladeveze * (1990)

Jean-Yves Girard Jean-Yves Girard (; born 1947) is a French logician working in proof theory. He is a research director (emeritus) at the mathematical institute of University of Aix-Marseille, at Luminy. Biography Jean-Yves Girard is an alumnus of the Éc ...

* (1993) Marie Farge "for her work on the application of the wavelet transform to the study of

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". * (1995) Yves Le Jan

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