Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize facts for kids

The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize is awarded every four years by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society to an outstanding young mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland. It is named after Sir Edmund Whittaker.

History

After the death of Sir Edmund Whittaker in 1956, his son John Macnaghten Whittaker donated on behalf of the Whittaker Family the sum of £500 to the Edinburgh Mathematical Society to establish a prize for mathematical work in memory of his father. As of 2009, the award money remains £500.

Winners

• 2017 Arend Bayer (University of Edinburgh)
• 2013 Stuart White (University of Glasgow)
• 2009 Agata Smoktunowicz (University of Edinburgh)
• 2005 Tom Bridgeland (University of Sheffield)
• 2001 Michael McQuillan and J A Sherratt
• 1997 Alan D Rendall (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik)
• 1993 Mitchell A. Berger and Alan W. Reid
• 1989 A A Lacey and Michael Röckner
• 1985 John Mackintosh Howie
• 1981 John M. Ball (University of Oxford)
• 1977 Gavin Brown and C A Stuart
• 1973 A M Davie (University of Edinburgh)
• 1970 Derek J S Robinson (University of Illinois)
• 1965 John Bryce McLeod (University of Oxford)
• 1961 A G Mackie and Andrew H. Wallace