The Jacques Deruyts Prize, or Prix Jacques Deruyts, is a monetary prize that recognizes distinguished research contributions in Mathematics. It was first awarded in 1952 by the
Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Sciences and is named for
Jacques Deruyts (full name Deruyts, Joseph Gustave Jacques) who was a Belgian
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
, known as a pioneer of
group representation theory
In the mathematical field of representation theory, group representations describe abstract groups in terms of bijective linear transformations of a vector space to itself (i.e. vector space automorphisms); in particular, they can be used to r ...
.
Deruyts received his doctorate in 1883 from the
University of Liège
The University of Liège (), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium founded in 1817 and based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French (language), French.
History
The university was foun ...
Recipients
The recipients of the Jacques Deruyts Prize are:
* 1952: Paul Gillis
* 1956: Jean Teghem
* 1960: Félix Alardin
* 1964: No award
* 1968: No award
* 1972:
* 1976: Jean-Pierre Gossez
* 1980: Paul Godin
* 1984: Jean Schmets
* 1988: Marc De Wilde
* 1992: Christian Fabry
* 1996:
Jean Bricmont
Jean Bricmont (; born 12 April 1952) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), he works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. Since 200 ...
* 2000: Jean Schmets
* 2004:
F. Thomas Bruss
* 2008: Thierry De Pauw
* 2012: Denis Bonheure
* 2016: Siegfried Hörmann
* 2020: Jean Van Schaftingen
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See also
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List of mathematics awards
This list of mathematics awards contains articles about notable awards for mathematics. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors the award, but awards may be open to mathematicians from around the world. Som ...
References
Mathematics awards