Émile Picard Medal

The Émile Picard Medal (or Médaille Émile Picard) is a medal named for Émile Picard awarded every 6 years to an outstanding mathematician^[1] by the Institut de France, Académie des sciences. This rewards a mathematician designated by the Academy of Sciences every six years. The first medal was awarded in 1946.

Portrait of Charles-Emile Picard (1909)

Recipients

The Émile Picard Medal recipients are^[1][2]

• Maurice Fréchet (1946)
• Paul Lévy (1953)
• Henri Cartan (1959)
• Szolem Mandelbrojt (1965),
• Jean-Pierre Serre (1971)
• Alexandre Grothendieck (1977)
• André Néron (1983)
• François Bruhat (1989)
• Jean-Pierre Kahane (1995)
• Jacques Dixmier (2001)
• Louis Boutet de Monvel (2007)
• Luc Illusie (2012)
• Yves Colin de Verdière (2018)

See also

• List of mathematics awards