Leconte Prize

The Leconte Prize (French: Prix Leconte) is a prize created in 1886 by the French Academy of Sciences to recognize important discoveries in mathematics, physics, chemistry, natural history or medicine. In recent years the prize has been awarded in the specific categories of mathematics, physics, and biology. Scientists and mathematicians of all nationalities are eligible for the award. The value of the award in the late 19th and early 20th century was F50,000 (at the time equivalent to £2,000, or US$10,000), about five times as much as the annual salary of the average professor in France. The award was F22,000 in 1984, F20,000 in 2001, €3,000 in 2008, €2,500 in 2010, €2,000 in 2014, and €1,500 in 2019.[1][2][3][4][5]

The Leconte Prize was established with a donation from a businessman, Victor Eugene Leconte, to the academy. The donation specified that a F50,000 prize would be awarded every three years for outstanding past work, and that up to 1/8th of the interest earned by the fund each year could be awarded as encouragements, i.e., support for ongoing and future research. The academy did not award any large (F50,000) prizes between 1905 and 1916, but did award a total of F30,000 in encouragements during that period.[6]

Recipients
YearRecipientFieldAmountNotes
1889Paul Marie Eugène VieilleMechanics[7]
1891M. Douliot[8] Encouragement award.[6]
1892Philbert Maurice d'OcagneMathematics[9]
1892Jean Antoine VilleminMedicineF50,000Posthumously.[10]
1895William Ramsay and
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh		PhysicsF50,000[11][12]
1898no award[13]
1901Fernand FoureauExploration[14]
1904Prosper-René BlondlotPhysicsF50,000[15]
1907no award[16]
1909Walter RitzPhysics[17] Encouragement award.[6]
1910Arthur Robert HinksAstronomy[18] Encouragement award.[6]
1911no award[19]
1912Charles TellierF8,000[20] Encouragement award.[6]
1912M. ForestF12,000[20] Encouragement award.[6]
1915Almroth WrightMedicine[21] Encouragement award.[6]
1921Georges ClaudeMechanicsF50,000[22]
1927Alexandre YersinMedicine[23]
1930Élie CartanMathematics[24]
1955Lucien BullMechanics[25]
1960Marguerite PereyPhysics[26]
1975Pierre BuserMedicine[27]
1978Marcel BergerMathematics[28]
1984Michel Duflo and Luc TartarMathematicsF22,000[29]
1993Georg MaretPhysics[30]
1997Raoul RanjevaBiology[31]
1998Philippe BianeMathematics[32]
1999Hervé NifeneckerPhysics[33]
2001Thierry GaudeBiologyF20,000[31][34]
2002Christian GérardMathematics[32]
2004Rémi MonassonPhysics[33]
2006Arnaud Cheritat and Xavier BuffMathematics[32]
2007Alain PuginBiology[31]
2008Marie-Noëlle BussacPhysics€3,000[33]
2010David LannesMathematics€2,500[32]
2011Olivier LoudetBiology€2,500[31]
2012Laurent Sanchez-PalenciaPhysics€2,500[35]
2013Zoé ChatzidakisMathematics[36]
2014Teva VernouxBiology€2,000[37]
2015Jean-Claude GarreauPhysics€2,000[38]
2017Nikolay TzvetkovMathematics[39]
2019Michaël Le BarsPhysics€1,500[40]
2020Phillipe Eyssidieux, Vincent Guedj
and Ahmed Zeriahi		Mathematics€1,500[41]

See also

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