Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
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The Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry is an award granted by the American Mathematical Society for notable research in geometry or topology. It was founded in 1961 in memory of Oswald Veblen. The Veblen Prize is now worth US$5000, and awarded every three years.
Former recipients are:
- 1964: Christos Papakyriakopoulos
- 1964: Raoul Bott
- 1966: Stephen Smale
- 1966: Morton Brown and Barry Mazur
- 1971: Robion Kirby
- 1971: Dennis Sullivan
- 1976: William Thurston
- 1976: James Harris Simons
- 1981: Mikhail Gromov
- 1981: Shing-Tung Yau
- 1986: Michael Freedman
- 1991: Andrew Casson and Clifford Taubes
- 1996: Richard Hamilton and Gang Tian
- 2001: Jeff Cheeger, Yakov Eliashberg, and Michael J. Hopkins
- 2004: David Gabai
- 2007: Peter Kronheimer, Tomasz Mrowka, Peter Ozsváth, and Zoltán Szabó
