Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
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The Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry is an award granted by the American Mathematical Society for notable research in geometry or topology. It was founded in 1961 in memory of Oswald Veblen. The Veblen Prize is now worth US$5000, and awarded every three years.
[edit] List of recipients
- 1964 Christos Papakyriakopoulos
- 1964 Raoul Bott
- 1966 Stephen Smale
- 1966 Morton Brown and Barry Mazur
- 1971 Robion Kirby
- 1971 Dennis Sullivan
- 1976 William Thurston
- 1976 James Harris Simons
- 1981 Mikhail Gromov
- 1981 Shing-Tung Yau
- 1986 Michael Freedman
- 1991 Andrew Casson and Clifford Taubes
- 1996 Richard Hamilton and Gang Tian
- 2001 Jeff Cheeger, Yakov Eliashberg and Michael J. Hopkins
- 2004 David Gabai
- 2007 Peter Kronheimer and Tomasz Mrowka; Peter Ozsváth and Zoltán Szabó
