The John von Neumann Prize (until 2019 named John von Neumann Lecture Prizehttps://www.siam.org/prizes-recognition/major-prizes-lectures/detail/full-prize-specifications/john-von-neumann-prize, accessed 2021/06/16, on bottom of page) was funded in 1959 with support from IBM and other industry corporations, and began being awarded in 1960 for "outstanding and distinguished contributions to the field of applied mathematical sciences and for the effective communication of these ideas to the community". It is considered the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The recipient receives a monetary award and presents a survey lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting.
Selection process
Anybody is able to nominate a mathematician for the prize. Nominations are reviewed by a selection committee, consisting of members of SIAM who serve two-year appointments. The committee selects one recipient for the prize nine months before the SIAM Annual Meeting and forwards their nomination to SIAM's Executive Committee and Vice President for Programs.
Past lecturers
1960: Lars Valerian Ahlfors 1961: Mark Kac 1962: Jean Leray 1963: Stanislaw M. Ulam 1964: Solomon Lefschetz 1965: Freeman Dyson 1966: Eugene P. Wigner 1967: Chia-Chiao Lin 1968: Peter D. Lax 1969: George F. Carrier 1970: James H. Wilkinson 1971: Paul A. Samuelson 1974: Jule Charney 1975: Sir James Lighthill 1976: René Thom 1977: Kenneth J. Arrow 1978: Peter Henrici 1979: Kurt O. Friedrichs 1980: Keith Stewartson 1981: Garrett Birkhoff 1982: David Slepian 1983: Joseph B. Keller 1984: Jürgen Moser 1985: John W. Tukey 1986: Jacques-Louis Lions 1987: Richard M. Karp 1988: Germund Dahlquist 1989: Stephen Smale 1990: Andrew J. Majda 1991: No award was made 1992: R. Tyrrell Rockafellar 1993: No award was made 1994: Martin D. Kruskal 1995: No award was made 1996: Carl de Boor 1997: William Kahan 1998: Olga Ladyzhenskaya 1999: Charles S. Peskin 2000: Persi Diaconis 2001: David L. Donoho 2002: Eric S. Lander 2003: Heinz-Otto Kreiss 2004: Alan C. Newell 2005: Jerrold E. Marsden 2006: George C. Papanicolaou 2007: Nancy Kopell 2008: David Gottlieb 2009: Franco Brezzi 2010: Bernd Sturmfels 2011: Ingrid Daubechies 2012: Sir John M. Ball 2013: Stanley J. Osher 2014: Leslie F. Greengard 2015: Jennifer Tour Chayes 2016: Donald E. Knuth 2017: Bernard J. Matkowsky 2018: Charles F. Van Loan 2019: Margaret H. Wright 2020: Nick Trefethen 2021: Chi-Wang Shu 2022: Leah Keshet 2023: Yousef Saad 2024: Jorge Nocedal 2025: Marsha Berger 2026: Mark Newman
See also
List of mathematics awards
References