Poncelet Prize

The Poncelet Prize (French: Prix Poncelet) is awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. The prize was established in 1868 by the widow of General Jean-Victor Poncelet for the advancement of the sciences.^[1] It was in the amount of 2,000 francs (as of 1868), mostly for the work in applied mathematics. The precise wording of the announcement by the Academy varied from year to year and required the work be "in mechanics", 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."

1 Poncelet Prize recipients
2 Notes
3 References

Poncelet Prize recipients

The following is an incomplete list of recipients, with a brief citation as in the Nature announcement (if available).

19th century

(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, "for the ensemble of his mathematical work."
(1878) Edmond Laguerre, "for his mathematical works."
(1882) Charles Auguste Briot
(1883) Rudolf Clausius
(1885) Henri Poincaré
(1886) Charles Émile Picard
(1888) Édouard Collignon
(1889) Edouard Goursat
(1891) Marie Georges Humbert
(1893) Hermann Laurent, "for the whole of his mathematical works."
(1896) Paul Painlevé, "for all of his mathematical work."
(1898) Jacques Hadamard
(1899) Eugène Cosserat, "for the whole of his contributions to geometry and mechanics."
(1900) Léon Lecornu

20th century

(1901) Émile Borel
(1902) Maurice d'Ocagne
(1903) David Hilbert
(1904) D. André
(1907) Erik Ivar Fredholm, "for his researches on integral equations."
(1908) Comte de Sparre, "for his studies relating to gunnery and his works on mechanics."
(1911) Maurice Leblanc, "for the totality of his researches in mechanics."
(1912) Edmond Maillet
(1913) Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs
(1914) Henri Lebesgue
(1915) Charles de la Vallée-Poussin
(1917) Jules Andrade, "for his work in applied mechanics, especially that dealing with chronometry."
(1919) Joseph Larmor
(1920) Élie Cartan, "for the whole of his work."
(1921) Jacques Charles Emile Jouguet
(1922) Jules Drach, "for the whole of his work in mathematics."
(1923) Auguste Boulanger (posthumously), "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, "for his mathematical work as a whole."
(1929) Alfred-Marie Liénard
(1932) Raoul Bricard, "for his work in geometry."
(1936) Paul Lévy, "for the whole of his mathematical works."
(1981) Philippe G. Ciarlet
(1987) Pierre Ladeveze
(1993) Marie Farge

Additional recipients (date not confirmed)

Notes

^ Jeremy Gray, "A History of Prizes in Mathematics", Clay Mathematics Institute and American Mathematical Society, 2006.

References

Nature, different years.