Poncelet Prize

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Poncelet Prize

Poncelet Prize is awarded by the French Academy of Sciences

French Academy of Sciences

The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French people Scientific method....
. The prize was established in 1868 by the widow of General Jean-Victor Poncelet

Jean-Victor Poncelet

Jean-Victor Poncelet was a French people engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the commandant general of the ?cole Polytechnique....
for the advancement of the sciences. It was in the amount of 2,000 francs

French franc

The franc is a former currency of France. Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money....
(as of 1868), mostly for the work in applied mathematics

Applied mathematics

Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with the mathematical techniques typically used in the application of mathematical knowledge to other domains....
. The precise wording of the announcement by the Academy varied from year to year and required the work be "in mechanics

Mechanics

Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behaviour of physical body when subjected to forces or Displacement , and the subsequent effect of the bodies on their environment....
", 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."

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Poncelet Prize is awarded by the French Academy of Sciences

French Academy of Sciences

Jean-Victor Poncelet

French franc

Applied mathematics

Mechanics

Poncelet Prize recipients

The following is an incomplete list of recipients, with a brief citation as in the Nature
Nature (journal)

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announcement (if available).

19th century

(1871) Joseph Boussinesq
(1872) Amédée Mannheim, "for the general excellence of his geometrical disquisitions."
(1873) William Thomson
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , Order of Merit , Royal Victorian Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Presidents of the Royal Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, was an Ireland-born United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Mathematical physics and engineer....
, "for his magnificent works on the mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism."
(1874) Jacques Bresse
Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse

Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse was a France civil engineer who specialized in the design and use of water wheel. His name, along with 72 others, is engraved underneath the first balcony on the Eiffel Tower for his contributions to the field of civil engineering....
, "for his work in applied mechanics."
(1875) Gaston Darboux
Jean Gaston Darboux

Jean-Gaston Darboux was a France mathematician....
, "for the ensemble of his mathematical work."
(1878) Edmond Laguerre
Edmond Laguerre

Edmond Nicolas Laguerre was a France mathematician, a member of the Acad?mie fran?aise . His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis....
, "for his mathematical works."
(1882) Charles Auguste Briot
(1883) Rudolf Clausius
Rudolf Clausius

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius , was a Germany physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics....
(1885) Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré

Jules Henri Poincar? was a French mathematician and theoretical physicist, and a philosophy of science. Poincar? is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime....
(1886) Charles Émile Picard
Charles Émile Picard

Charles ?mile Picard was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Acad?mie Fran?aise in 1924....
(1888) Édouard Collignon
(1889) Edouard Goursat
Edouard Goursat

Edouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat was a French mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his Cours d'analyse math?matique, which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century....
(1891) Marie Georges Humbert
(1893) Hermann Laurent
Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent

Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent was a French mathematician. Despite his large body of works, Laurent series expansions for complex functions were not named after him, but after Pierre Alphonse Laurent....
, "for the whole of his mathematical works."
(1896) Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé

Paul Painlev? was a France mathematician and politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of France of the French Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925....
, "for all of his mathematical work."
(1898) Jacques Hadamard
Jacques Hadamard

Jacques Salomon Hadamard was a France mathematician best known for his proof of the prime number theorem in 1896....
(1899) Eugène Cosserat, "for the whole of his contributions to geometry and mechanics."
(1900) Léon Lecornu

20th century

(1901) Emile Borel
Émile Borel

F?lix ?douard Justin ?mile Borel was a France mathematician and politician.Along with Ren?-Louis Baire and Henri Lebesgue, he was among the pioneers of measure and its application to probability theory....
(1902) Maurice d'Ocagne
(1903) David Hilbert
David Hilbert

David Hilbert was a Germany mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries....
(1904) D. André
(1907) Erik Ivar Fredholm
Erik Ivar Fredholm

Erik Ivar Fredholm was a Swedish mathematician who established the modern theory of integral equations. His 1903 paper in Acta Mathematica is considered to be one of the major landmarks in the establishment of operator theory....
, "for his researches on integral equations."
(1908) Comte de Sparre, "for his studies relating to gunnery and his works on mechanics."
(1911) Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc (engineer)

Maurice Leblanc was a France engineer and industrialist.Born in Paris, Leblanc worked primarily in improving induction motors and alternators....
, "for the totality of his researches in mechanics."
(1912) Edmond Maillet
(1913) Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs
(1914) Henri Lebesgue
Henri Lebesgue

Henri L?on Lebesgue was a France mathematician, most famous for his theory of integral. Lebesgue's integration theory was originally published in his dissertation, A summary of Henri Lebesgue's dissertation , at the University of Nancy in 1902....
(1915) Charles de la Vallée-Poussin
Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin

Charles-Jean ?tienne Gustave Nicolas, Baron de la Vall?e Poussin was a Belgium mathematician. He is most well-known for proving the Prime number theorem....
(1917) Jules Andrade, "for his work in applied mechanics, especially that dealing with chronometry."
(1919) Joseph Larmor
Joseph Larmor

Sir Joseph Larmor , a physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics , thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter....
(1920) Elie Cartan
Élie Cartan

?lie Joseph Cartan was an influential France mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications....
, "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
Posthumous recognition

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), "for the whole of his scientific work."
(1924) Ernest Vessiot
Ernest Vessiot

Ernest Vessiot was a French people mathematician. He was born in Marseille, France and died in La Bauche, Savoie, France. He entered the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure in 1884....
, "for the whole of his work in mathematics."
(1925) Denis Eydoux, "for the whole of his work in hydraulics."
(1926) Paul Montel
Paul Antoine Aristide Montel

Paul Antoine Aristide Montel was a France mathematician. He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis....
, "for his mathematical work as a whole."
(1929) Alfred-Marie Liénard
Alfred-Marie Liénard

Alfred-Marie Li?nard , was a France physicist and engineer. He is most well known for his invention of the Li?nard-Wiechert Potentials.From 1887-1889 Li?nard was a student at the ?cole Polytechnique and from 1889-1892 at the ?cole nationale sup?rieure des mines de Paris....
(1932) Raoul Bricard
Raoul Bricard

Raoul Bricard is a France engineer and a mathematician. He is best known for his work in work in geometry, especially descriptive geometry and scissors congruence, and kinematics, especially mechanical linkages....
, "for his work in geometry."
(1936) Paul Lévy
Paul Pierre Lévy

Paul Pierre L?vy was a France mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing martingale s and L?vy flights. L?vy processes, L?vy measures, L?vy's constant, the L?vy distribution, the L?vy skew alpha-stable distribution, the L?vy area and the fractal L?vy C curve are also named after him....
, "for the whole of his mathematical works."
(1981) Philippe G. Ciarlet
Philippe G. Ciarlet

Philippe G. Ciarlet is a French mathematician, known particularly for his work on mathematical analysis of the finite element method especially applied to elasticity....
(1987) Pierre Ladeveze
(1993) Marie Farge

Additional recipients (date not confirmed)

Camille Jordan
Camille Jordan

Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan was a France mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential Cours d'analyse....
Julius Robert von Mayer
Georges Henri Halphen
Georges Henri Halphen

George Henri Halphen was a French mathematician. He did his studies at ?cole Polytechnique . He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry....