Senior Whitehead Prize
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The Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) is currently awarded in odd numbered years in memory of John Henry Constantine Whitehead, president of the LMS between 1953 and 1955. The Prize is awarded to mathematicians normally resident in the United Kingdom on 1 January of the relevant year. Selection criteria include work in, influence on or service to mathematics, or recognition of lecturing gifts in the field of mathematics. Previous recipients of top LMS prizes or medals are ineligible for nomination.
[edit] Prize winners
- 1974 John Frank Adams
- 1976 Charles Terrance Clegg Wall
- 1978 Ioan Mackenzie James
- 1980 David George Kendall
- 1982 Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman
- 1984 J.T. Stuart
- 1987 Robert Alexander Rankin
- 1989 L.E. Fraenkel
- 1991 William Bernard Raymond Lickorish
- 1993 Bryan John Birch
- 1995 Colin J. Bushnell
- 1997 John Henry Coates
- 1999 M.J.D. Powell
- 2001 D.W. Moore
- 2003 Peter M. Neumann
- 2005 Henry Keith Moffatt
- 2007 Béla Bollobás
