Theodore von Kármán Prize
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The Theodore von Kármán Prize in Applied Mathematics
is awarded every fifth year to an individual in recognition of his notable application of mathematics to mechanics and/or the engineering sciences. This award was established and endowed in 1968 in honor of Theodore von Kármán
by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(SIAM).
Applied mathematics
Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with mathematical methods that are typically used in science, engineering, business, and industry. Thus, "applied mathematics" is a mathematical science with specialized knowledge...
is awarded every fifth year to an individual in recognition of his notable application of mathematics to mechanics and/or the engineering sciences. This award was established and endowed in 1968 in honor of Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Karman
Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization...
by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led...
(SIAM).
List of recipients
- 1972 Geoffrey Ingram TaylorGeoffrey Ingram TaylorSir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM was a British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time student, George Batchelor, described him as "one of the most notable scientists of this century".-Biography:Taylor was born in St. John's Wood, London...
- 1979 George F. CarrierGeorge F. CarrierGeorge Francis Carrier was a mathematician and the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus of Harvard University. He was particularly noted for his ability to intuitively model a physical system and then deduce an analytical solution...
and Joseph B. KellerJoseph KellerJoseph B. Keller is an American mathematician who specializes in applied mathematics. He is best known for his work on the "Geometrical Theory of Diffraction" .... - 1984 Julian D. Cole
- 1989 Paul R. GarabedianPaul GarabedianPaul Roesel Garabedian was an applied mathematician and numerical analyst. Garabedian was the Director-Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University...
- 1994 Herbert B. KellerHerbert KellerHerbert Bishop Keller was an American applied mathematician and numerical analyst...
- 1999 Stuart S. Antman and John M. BallJohn M. BallSir John Macleod Ball, FRSE FRS is Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the President of the International Mathematical Union from 2003-06 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford...
- 2004 Roland GlowinskiRoland GlowinskiRoland Glowinski is French-American mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 1970 from Jacques-Louis Lions and is known for his work in applied mathematics, in particular numerical solution and applications of partial differential equations and variational inequalities...
- 2009 Mary F. WheelerMary WheelerMary Fanett Wheeler is an American mathematician, noted for her work on numerical methods for partial differential equations, including domain decomposition methods...