Smith Prize
The Smith Prize is an award given annually by Cambridge University to two students for outstanding work in mathematics (particularly applied mathematics ) or theoretical physics . The prize was donated in 1768 by the English mathematician Robert Smith (1689–1768) from profits from the South Sea Bubble . It has been awarded since 1769 (with the exception of 1917) and, for example, was £ 250 in 1998. Until 1885 it was awarded for the best in a special mathematical test, then for an essay.
In 1998 it was merged with the Rayleigh Prize (donated in 1911) and the TJ Knight Prize to form the Smith-Knight Prize and Rayleigh-Knight Prize, respectively.
When the prize was still awarded through an examination, among others were George Gabriel Stokes (1841), Arthur Cayley (1842), John Couch Adams (1843), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1845), Isaac Todhunter (1848), Peter Guthrie Tait (1852), James Clerk Maxwell (1854), Edward Routh (1854), John Strutt (Baron Rayleigh) (1865), Alfred George Greenhill (1870), Horace Lamb (1872), WW Rouse Ball (1874), William Burnside (1875), Joseph Larmor (1880, 1st prize), JJ Thomson (1880) winners.
Award winner based on an award essay
The list is not complete.
- 1885 EG Gallop, R. Lachlan ( Alfred North Whitehead received an Honorable Mention)
- 1886 Robert Franklin Muirhead (2nd Smith Prize), WP Workman
- 1887 Augustus Edward Hough Love
- 1888 Alfred Dixon , George Hartley Bryan
- 1889 Henry Frederick Baker , John Henry Michell
- 1890 Ralph Allan Sampson , WE Brunyate
- 1891 Hector Munro Macdonald , Frank Dyson
- 1892 GT Bennett, HW Segar
- 1893 CE Cullis, DB Mair, RHD Mayall
- 1894 Sydney Samuel Hough , Henry Cabourn Pocklington
- 1895 GT Manly, GHJ Hurst
- 1896 WS Adie (1st Smith Prize), AYG Campbell, FW Lawrence
- 1897 Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1st Prize), Richard Cockburn Maclaurin , AE Western
- 1898 Ernest William Barnes , BA Houston
- 1899 WH Austin, Gilbert Walker
- 1900 JF Cameron, RWHT Hudson
- 1901 Godfrey Harold Hardy , James Jeans
- 1902 TH Havelock, JE Wright
- 1903 H. Knapman, AP Thompson
- 1904 Ebenezer Cunningham , JCM Garnett, HA Webb, PW Wood
- 1905 Harry Bateman , PE Marrack
- 1906 CF Russell, FJM Stratton
- 1907 Arthur Stanley Eddington , GR Blanco-White, JW Nicholson, WM Page
- 1908 John Edensor Littlewood , James Mercer , WJ Harrison
- 1909 Herbert Turnbull , George Neville Watson
- 1910 Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
- 1911 GH Livins, WEH Berwick
- 1912 Eric Harold Neville , Louis Mordell
- 1913 Sydney Chapman , Harold Spencer Jones
- 1914 J. Jackson, BM Sen
- 1915 Harold Jeffreys , J. Proudman
- 1916 HM Garner, GP Thompson
- Not awarded in 1917
- 1918 Edward Lindsay Ince , K. Ananda Rau
- 1919 CNH Lock, SRV Savoor
- 1920 S. Pollard
- 1921 William Greaves , LA Pars
- 1922 Edward Arthur Milne , GC Steward
- 1923 John Charles Burkill , Albert Ingham
- 1924 TM Cherry, WJ Webber
- 1925 TG Room
- 1926 Llewellyn Thomas , GS Mahajani
- 1927 Sydney Goldstein , WVD Hodge
- 1928 WL Edge, AH Wilson
- 1929 John Macnaghten Whittaker , HD Ursell
- 1930 John Arthur Todd , Raymond Paley
- 1931 HSM Coxeter , HR Hulme
- 1932 DW Babbage, HM Taylor
- 1933 EA Maxwell, RH Stoy
- 1934 K. Mitchell, AJ Ward
- 1935 HG Booker, L. Howarth
- 1936 Alan Turing , EA Green
- 1937 ER Love, HR Pitt
- 1938 Fred Hoyle
- 1939 Thomas E. Easterfield, Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley
- 1940 IJ Good , RE Macpherson
- 1949 Derek Taunt
- 1950 Abdus Salam , Brian Haselgrove
- 1952 Michael Drazin
- 1954 Michael Atiyah
- 1960 Keith Moffatt , Ian Hacking
- 1962 Jayant V. Narlikar , John Kingman
- 1967 Stephen Watson
- 1971 Douglas C. Heggie
- 1972 Brian LN Kennett
- 1975 Brian D. Ripley
- 1976 Roger Heath-Brown , Bernard Silverman
- 1988 Andrew W. Woods
- 1996 Gordon Ian Ogilvie
- 1998 SM Blanchflower, AE Holroyd, MJ Walters, JA Dee, B. Szendroi, Damon J. Wischik
Web links
- Cambridge University, Faculty of Mathematics at the Smith-Knight and Rayleigh-Knight Awards
Individual evidence
- ↑ The complete list of the award winners from 1885 to 1940 with the title of the essays and those from 1769 to 1883 is in June Barrow-Green : A Corrective to the Spirit of too Exclusively Pure Mathematics: Robert Smith (1689–1768) and his Prizes at Cambridge University, Annals of Science, Vol. 56, 1999, pp. 271-316. Sometimes first and second winners are indicated, sometimes just plain Smith Prize.