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The '''Whitehead Prize''' is awarded yearly by the [[London Mathematical Society]] to multiple mathematicians working in the [[United Kingdom]] who are at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of [[homotopy]] theory pioneer [[J. H. C. Whitehead]].

More specifically, people being considered for the award must be resident in the United Kingdom on 1 January of the award year or must have been educated in the United Kingdom. Also, the candidates must have less than 15 years of work at the postdoctorate level and must not have received any other prizes from the Society.

Since the inception of the prize, no more than two could be awarded per year, but in 1999 this was increased to four "to allow for the award of prizes across the whole of mathematics, including applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and mathematical aspects of computer science".

The [[Senior Whitehead Prize]] has similar residence requirements and rules concerning prior prizes, but is intended to recognize more experienced mathematicians.

==List of Whitehead Prize winners==
* 1979 [[Peter Cameron (mathematician)|Peter Cameron]], [[Peter Johnstone (mathematician)|Peter Johnstone]]
* 1980 H. G. Dales, {{ill|Toby Stafford|de}}<ref>University of Manchester website [http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Toby.stafford/] accessed 28 December 2008</ref>
* 1981 [[Nigel Hitchin]], [[Derek F. Holt]]
* 1982 [[John M. Ball]], [[Martin J. Taylor]]
* 1983 [[Jeff Paris (mathematician)|Jeff Paris]], [[Andrew Ranicki]]
* 1984 [[Simon Donaldson]], [[Samuel James Patterson]]
* 1985 [[Dan Segal]], [[Philip J. Rippon]]
* 1986 [[Terry Lyons (mathematician)|Terence Lyons]], [[David A. Rand]]<ref>Biography on [[EPSRC]] website [http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/Content/Documents/Biographies/RandD.htm] accessed 27 December 2008  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121050652/http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/Content/Documents/Biographies/RandD.htm|date=21 November 2008}}</ref>
* 1987 [[Caroline Series]], [[Aidan H. Schofield]]
* 1988 [[Mary Rees|S. M. Rees]], P. J. Webb, [[Andrew Wiles]]
* 1989 [[David E. Evans|D. E. Evans]], [[Frances Kirwan]], [[Richard S. Ward|R. S. Ward]]
* 1990 [[Martin T. Barlow]], [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]], [[Antony Wassermann]]
* 1991 [[Nicholas Manton]], {{ill|A. J. Scholl|de|Anthony Scholl}}
* 1992 [[Keith Martin Ball|K. M. Ball]], [[Richard Borcherds]]
* 1993 D. J. Benson, [[Peter B. Kronheimer]], D. G. Vassiliev
* 1994 P. H. Kropholler, [[Robert Sinclair MacKay |R. S. MacKay]]
* 1995 [[Timothy Gowers]], [[Jeremy Rickard]]
* 1996 [[John Roe (mathematician)|John Roe]], Y. Safarov
* 1997 [[Brian Bowditch]], {{ill|A. Grigor'yan|de|Alexander Assaturowitsch Grigorjan}}, [[Dominic Joyce]]
* 1998 S. J. Chapman, [[Igor Rivin]], [[Jan Nekovář]]
* 1999 [[Martin Bridson]], {{ill|G. Friesecke|de|Gero Friesecke}}, [[Nicholas Higham]], [[Imre Leader]]
* 2000 [[M. A. J. Chaplain]], [[Gwyneth Stallard]], [[Andrew M. Stuart]], [[Burt Totaro]]
* 2001 [[Michael McQuillan (mathematician)|M. McQuillan]], [[Alexei Skorobogatov|A. N. Skorobogatov]], [[V. Smyshlyaev]], [[J. R. King]]
* 2002 [[Kevin Buzzard]], [[Alessio Corti]], [[Marianna Csörnyei]], {{ill|C. Teleman|de|Constantin Teleman}}
* 2003 [[N. Dorey]], [[T. Hall]], [[Marc Lackenby]], [[M. Nazarov]]
* 2004 [[M. Ainsworth]], [[Vladimir Markovic]], [[Richard Thomas (mathematician)|Richard Thomas]],<ref>[http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/puremaths Imperial College web site]</ref> [[Ulrike Tillmann]]
* 2005 [[Ben Green (mathematician)|Ben Green]], [[Bernd Kirchheim]], {{ill|Neil Strickland|de}}, [[Peter Topping]]
* 2006 [[Raphaël Rouquier]], [[Jonathan Sherratt]], [[Paul Sutcliffe]], [[Agata Smoktunowicz]]
* 2007 [[Nikolay Nikolov (mathematician)|Nikolay Nikolov]], [[Oliver Riordan]], [[Ivan Smith (mathematician)|Ivan Smith]], [[Catharina Stroppel]]
* 2008 [[Timothy Browning]], [[Tamás Hausel]], [[Martin Hairer]], [[Nina Snaith]]
* 2009 [[Mihalis Dafermos]], [[Cornelia Druțu]], [[Bethany Rose Marsh]], [[Markus Owen]]
* 2010 [[Harald Helfgott]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harald Helfgott '98 awarded Adams Prize by University of Cambridge, UK |url=https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2011/march/helfgott.html |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=BrandeisNOW |language=en}}</ref> [[Jens Marklof]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Jens Marklof {{!}} London Mathematical Society |url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/about/marklof-bio |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.lms.ac.uk}}</ref>,[[Lasse Rempe-Gillen]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof Lasse Rempe {{!}} Our people {{!}} University of Liverpool |url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/lasse-rempe |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=www.liverpool.ac.uk}}</ref> [[Françoise Tisseur]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Francoise Tisseur |url=https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/francoise.tisseur |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=Research Explorer The University of Manchester |language=en}}</ref>
* 2011 [[Jonathan Bennett (mathematician)|Jonathan Bennett]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Jonathan Bennett |url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/maths/bennett-jonathan#:~:text=Professor%20Jonathan%20Bennett%20BA%20PhD&text=In%202011%20he%20received%20a,to%20Geometric%20and%20Harmonic%20Analysis. |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=University of Birmingham |language=en-GB}}</ref> {{ill|Alexander Gorodnik|de}}, [[Barbara Niethammer]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=London Mathematical Society prizes 2011 {{!}} Mathematical Institute |url=https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/727 |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=www.maths.ox.ac.uk}}</ref>,[[Alexander Pushnitski]]
* 2012 [[Toby Gee]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fellow Detail Page {{!}} Royal Society |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/toby-gee-36778/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=royalsociety.org |language=en}}</ref> [[Eugen Vărvărucă]], [[Sarah L. Waters|Sarah Waters]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-27 |title=Waters, Professor Sarah {{!}} St Anne's College, Oxford |url=https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/cpt_people/waters-dr-sarah/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Andreas Winter]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-07-20 |title=London Mathematical Society Prizes 2012 |url=https://aperiodical.com/2012/07/london-mathematical-society-prizes-2012/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=The Aperiodical |language=en}}</ref>
* 2013 [[Luis Fernando Alday]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luis Fernando Alday {{!}} Mathematical Institute |url=https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/luis.alday |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.maths.ox.ac.uk}}</ref> [[André Neves]], [[Tom Sanders (mathematician)|Tom Sanders]], [[Corinna Ulcigrai]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Corinna Ulcigrai |url=https://user.math.uzh.ch/ulcigrai/CV.html |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=user.math.uzh.ch}}</ref>
* 2014 [[Clément Mouhot]], [[Ruth Baker]], [[Tom Coates (mathematician)|Tom Coates]], [[Daniela Kühn]] and [[Deryk Osthus]]<ref>LMS Website http://www.lms.ac.uk/prizes/lms-prizes-2014 accessed 6 December 2014</ref>
* 2015 [[Peter Keevash]], [[James Maynard (mathematician)|James Maynard]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=A James Maynard wins Whitehead Prize |url=https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/james-maynard-wins-whitehead-prize/}}</ref> [[Christoph Ortner]], [[Mason Porter]], [[Dominic Vella]], [[David Loeffler]] and [[Sarah Zerbes]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarah Zerbes {{!}} bgs.renyi.hu |url=https://bgs.renyi.hu/speakers/sarah-zerbes |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=bgs.renyi.hu}}</ref>
* 2016 [[A. Bayer]], [[G. Holzegel]], [[Jason P. Miller]], [[Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb]]<ref>LMS website https://www.lms.ac.uk/prizes/list-lms-prize-winners#Whead accessed July 2016</ref>
* 2017 [[Julia Gog]], [[András Máthé]], [[Ashley Montanaro]], [[Oscar Randal-Williams]], [[Jack Thorne (mathematician)|Jack Thorne]], [[Michael Wemyss]]<ref>LMS website https://www.lms.ac.uk/prizes/2017-nominations-lms-prizes</ref>
* 2018 [[Caucher Birkar]], [[Ana Caraiani]], [[Heather Harrington]], [[Valerio Lucarini]], [[Filip Rindler]], [[Péter Varjú]]<ref>LMS website https://www.lms.ac.uk/news-entry/29062018-1745/2018-lms-prize-winners</ref>
* 2019 [[Alexandr Buryak]], [[David Conlon]], [[Toby Cubitt]], [[Anders C. Hansen (mathematician)|Anders Hansen]], [[William Parnell(mathematician)|William Parnell]], [[Nick Sheridan (mathematician)|Nick Sheridan]]<ref>[https://www.lms.ac.uk/news-entry/28062019-1621/lms-prize-winners-2019 Prize Winners 2019]</ref>
* 2020 [[Maria Bruna]], [[Ben Davison (mathematican)|Ben Davison]], [[Adam Harper]], [[Holly Krieger]], [[Andrea Mondino]], [[Henry Wilton]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=LMS Prize Winners 2020 {{!}} London Mathematical Society|url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/news-entry/26062020-1657/lms-prize-winners-2020|access-date=2020-06-26|website=www.lms.ac.uk}}</ref>
* 2021 [[Jonathan Evans (mathematician)|Jonathan Evans]], [[Patrick Farrell (mathematician)|Patrick Farrell]], [[Agelos Georgakopoulos]], [[Michael Magee (mathematician)|Michael Magee]], [[Aretha Teckentrup]], [[Stuart White (mathematician)|Stuart White]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=2021 LMS Prize Winners {{!}} London Mathematical Society|url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/node/1711|access-date=2021-07-19|website=www.lms.ac.uk}}</ref>
* 2022 [[Jessica Fintzen]], [[Ian Griffiths (mathematician)|Ian Griffiths]], [[Dawid Kielak]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Euan Spence receives prestigious Whitehead Prize |url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/euan-spence-receives-prestigious-whitehead-prize/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=www.bath.ac.uk}}</ref> [[Chunyi Li]], [[Tadahiro Oh]], [[Euan Spence]]<ref>[https://www.lms.ac.uk/lms-prize-winners-2022 2022 LMS Winners]</ref>
* 2023 [[David Bate]], [[Soheyla Feyzbakhsh]], [[András Juhász]], [[Mahesh Kakde]], [[Yankı Lekili]], [[Marie-Therese Wolfram]]<ref>[https://www.lms.ac.uk/2023-lms-prize-winners 2023 LMS Winners]</ref>
* 2024 [[Sabine Bögli]], [[Viveka Erlandsson]], [[James Newton (mathematician)|James Newton]], [[Clarice Poon]], [[Julian Sahasrabudhe]], [[Alessandro Sisto]]<ref>[https://www.lms.ac.uk/news/2024-lms-prize-winners 2024 LMS Winners]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Fröhlich Prize]]
* [[Senior Whitehead Prize]]
* [[Shephard Prize]]
* [[Berwick Prize]]
* [[Naylor Prize and Lectureship]]
* [[Pólya Prize (LMS)]]
* [[De Morgan Medal]]
* [[List of mathematics awards]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.lms.ac.uk/content/lms-prize-regulations Prize rules]
* [http://www.lms.ac.uk/content/list-lms-prize-winners List of LMS prize winners]

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