Whittaker Prize
The Edinburgh Mathematical Society's Whittaker Prize (Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize) is awarded every four years for outstanding work in mathematics (pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, mathematical physics). Awardees must be 35 years or older at the time of award and must be affiliated with Scottish universities, either with a degree from such university or at least three years of research. The prize money is a minimum of £ 50. It is named after Edmund Taylor Whittaker , who was a professor in Edinburgh, and was donated in 1956 (and endowed with a sum of 500 pounds) by his son John Macnaughten Whittaker, also a mathematics professor.
Award winners
- 1961: AG Mackie , Andrew Hugh Wallace
- 1965: John Bryce McLeod (Oxford, Pittsburgh, Analysis)
- 1970: Derek JS Robinson (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, retired, Algebra)
- 1973: Alexander Munro Davie
- 1977: Gavin Brown (University of Sydney), Charles A. Stuart (University of Sussex, Applied Mathematics)
- 1981: John M. Ball (Oxford)
- 1985: Jim Howie (Heriot-Watt University, Topology)
- 1989: Andrew Lacey (Heriot Watt University, applied mathematics), Michael Röckner (Bielefeld University, analysis, probability theory)
- 1993: Mitchell Berger (University of Exeter, knot theory with applications in astrophysics), Alan Reid (University of Texas, low-dimensional topology, discrete groups and hyberbolic manifolds)
- 1997: Alan Rendall (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam), for mathematical work in the field of general relativity
- 2001: Michael McQuillan and Jonathan Sherratt (Heriot-Watt University, mathematical modeling in medicine and biology, e.g. cancer)
- 2005: Tom Bridgeland (University of Sheffield), Algebraic Geometry and Links to String Theory
- 2009: Agata Smoktunowicz (University of Edinburgh)
- 2013: Stuart White (University of Glasgow), Functional Analysis
- 2016: Arend Bayer (University of Edinburgh), Algebraic Geometry