The Prix Ampère de l’Électricité de France is a scientific prize awarded annually 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 ...

. Founded in 1974 in honor of

André-Marie Ampère André-Marie Ampère (, ; ; 20 January 177510 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as ''electrodynamics''. He is also the inventor of ...

to celebrate his 200th birthday in 1975, the award is granted to one or more French scientists for outstanding research work in mathematics or physics. The monetary award is 50,000 euro, funded by Électricité de France.

Winners

* 2024 : Xavier Pennec * 2023 :

Philippe Grangier Philippe is a masculine given name, cognate to Philip, and sometimes also a surname. The name may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prin ...

* 2022 : Yann Brenier * 2021 : Equipe géodynamo d'ISTerre * 2020 : Guy David * 2019 : Jacqueline Bloch * 2018 :

Frank Merle Frank Merle is an American screenwriter, director and producer best known for '' The Employer'' and '' From Jennifer.'' Also a theatrical producer and director, Merle graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University. Film career Merle co ...

* 2017 : * 2016 : Alain Brillet * 2015 : * 2014 :

Gilles Chabrier Gilles Chabrier is a French astrophysicist who is best known for his work on brown dwarfs. He is currently a professor of astronomy at the University of Exeter. Life and scientific work Gilles Chabrier was born on 30 June 1955 in Lyon. He st ...

* 2013 : Arnaud Beauville * 2012 : * 2011 : * 2010 : * 2009 : * 2008 : Gérard Iooss * 2007 : * 2004, 2005, 2006 : ''Prize not awarded''. * 2003 : Gilles Lebeau * 2002 : * 2001 :

Bernard Derrida Bernard Derrida (; born 1952) is a French theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work in statistical mechanics, and is the eponym of ''Derrida plots'', an analytical technique for characterising differences between Boolean networks. Bio ...

* 2000 : Pierre Suquet * 1999 : Yves Colin de Verdière * 1998 : and

Jean-Michel Raimond Jean-Michel Raimond (born in Orléans) is a French physicist working in the field of quantum mechanics. Biography Raimond enrolled at the École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm) (ENS) in 1975. After graduating with a DEA in atomic and molecu ...

* 1997 : Michèle Vergne * 1996 : and Marc Mézard * 1995 :

Claude Itzykson Claude Georges Itzykson, (11 April 1938 – 22 May 1995) was a French theoretical physicist who worked in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. Biography Separated from his parents by World War II, his father was taken to a Na ...

* 1994 : * 1993 :

Christophe Soulé Christophe Soulé (born 1951) is a French mathematician working in arithmetic geometry. Education Soulé started his studies in 1970 at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Paris in 1979 under the sup ...

* 1992 :

Pierre-Louis Lions Pierre-Louis Lions (; born 11 August 1956) is a French mathematician. He is known for a number of contributions to the fields of partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. He was a recipient of the 1994 Fields Medal and the 19 ...

* 1991 :

Michel Devoret Michel Devoret is a French physicist and F. W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. He also holds a position as the Director of the Applied Physics Nanofabrication Lab at Yale. He is known for his pioneering work on macroscopi ...

and * 1990 :

Jean-Michel Bismut Jean-Michel Bismut (born 26 February 1948) is a French mathematician who has been a professor at the Université Paris-Sud since 1981. His mathematical career covers two apparently different branches of mathematics: probability theory and diff ...

* 1989 :

Adrien Douady Adrien Douady (; 25 September 1935 – 2 November 2006) was a French mathematician born in La Tronche, Isère. He was the son of Daniel Douady and Guilhen Douady. Douady was a student of Henri Cartan at the École normale supérieure, and initi ...

* 1988 : Jules Horowitz * 1987 :

Michel Raynaud Michel Raynaud (; 16 June 1938 – 10 March 2018 Décès de Michel Raynaud
So ...

* 1986 : * 1985 :

Haïm Brezis Haïm Brezis (1 June 1944 – 7 July 2024) was a French mathematician, who mainly worked in functional analysis and partial differential equations. Biography Born in Riom-ès-Montagnes, Cantal, France. Brezis was the son of a Romanian immigra ...

* 1984 : Daniel Kastler * 1983 :

Claude Bouchiat Claude Bouchiat (16 May 1932 – 25 November 2021) was a French physicist, and a member of the French Academy of sciences. Biography Graduate of the École Polytechnique in 1955. He completed a Ph.D. in 1960 titled ''La règle de sélection Δ ...

, Marie-Anne Bouchiat and * 1982 :

Paul-André Meyer Paul-André Meyer (21 August 1934 – 30 January 2003) was a French mathematician, who played a major role in the development of the general theory of stochastic processes. He worked at the Institut de Recherche Mathématique (IRMA) in Stra ...

* 1981 :

Édouard Brézin Édouard Brézin (; born 1 December 1938 Paris) is a French theoretical physicist. He is professor at Université Paris 6, working at the laboratory for theoretical physics (LPT) of the École Normale Supérieure since 1986. Biography Brézin ...

Jean Zinn-Justin Jean Zinn-Justin (born 10 July 1943 in Berlin) is a French theoretical physicist. Biography Zinn-Justin was educated in physics (undergraduate 1964) at the École Polytechnique, and did graduate work in theoretical physics at Orsay, (Ph.D. 1968 ...

* 1980 :

Alain Connes Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He was a professor at the , , Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was awar ...

* 1979 :

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and magnetic trap (atoms), trapping atoms. Currentl ...

* 1978 : Pierre Cartier * 1977 :

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991. Education and early life He was born in Paris, France, and was home-schooled to the age of 12. By the age of ...

* 1976 :

Jacques Dixmier Jacques Dixmier (born 24 May 1924) is a French mathematician. He worked on operator algebras, especially C*-algebras, and wrote several of the standard reference books on them, and introduced the Dixmier trace and the Dixmier mapping. Biogra ...

* 1975 : André Lagarrigue * 1974 :

Jean Brossel Jean Brossel (15 August 1918 – 4 February 2003) was a French physicist known for his work on quantum optics. He was born and died in Périgueux. Brossel passed the entrance exam for l'École normale supérieure (ENS) 1938, but then was for tw ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prize Ampere Physics awards Mathematics awards Awards established in 1974

Winners

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