The Naylor Prize and lectureship in Applied Mathematics is a prize of the

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awarded every two years in memory of Dr V.D. Naylor. Only those who reside in the

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are eligible for the prize. The "grounds for award can include work in, and influence on, and contributions to applied mathematics and/or the applications of mathematics, and lecturing gifts."

Prize winners

Source:List of LMS prize winners, LMS websit

accessed July 2011 * 1977 James Lighthill * 1979 Basil John Mason * 1981 H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins * 1983 Michael J. D. Powell * 1985 I C Percival * 1987 Douglas Samuel Jones * 1989 J D Murray * 1991

Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, Philosophy of science, philosopher of science and Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics i ...

* 1993 Michael Berry * 1995 John Ball * 1997 Frank Kelly * 1999

Stephen Hawking Stephen William Hawking (8January 194214March 2018) was an English theoretical physics, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between ...

* 2000 Athanassios S. Fokas * 2002 Mark H. A. Davis * 2004 Richard Jozsa * 2007 Michael Green * 2009 Philip Maini * 2011 John Bryce McLeod * 2013 Nick Trefethen * 2015 S. Jonathan Chapman * 2017 John King * 2019 Nicholas Higham * 2021 Endre Süli * 2023 Jens G. Eggers

References

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Prize winners

See also

References