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

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Year Recipient Field Amount Notes
1889 Paul Marie Eugène Vieille Mechanics [7]
1891 M. Douliot [8] Encouragement award.[6]
1892 Philbert Maurice d'Ocagne Mathematics [9]
1892 Jean Antoine Villemin Medicine F50,000 Posthumously.[10]
1895 William Ramsay and
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh		 Physics F50,000 [11][12]
1898 no award [13]
1901 Fernand Foureau Exploration [14]
1904 Prosper-René Blondlot Physics F50,000 [15]
1907 no award [16]
1909 Walter Ritz Physics F2,000 [17] Encouragement award.[6]
1910 Arthur Robert Hinks Astronomy [18] Encouragement award.[6]
1911 no award [19]
1912 Charles Tellier F8,000 [20] Encouragement award.[6]
1912 M. Forest F12,000 [20] Encouragement award.[6]
1915 Almroth Wright Medicine [21] Encouragement award.[6]
1921 Georges Claude Mechanics F50,000 [22]
1924 André-Louis Debierne Chemistry [23]
1927 Alexandre Yersin Medicine [24]
1930 Élie Cartan Mathematics [25]
1936 Julien Constantin Posthumously. "For the whole of his work."[26]
1955 Lucien Bull Mechanics [27]
1960 Marguerite Perey Physics [28]
1975 Pierre Buser [fr; de] Medicine [29]
1978 Marcel Berger Mathematics [30]
1984 Michel Duflo and Luc Tartar Mathematics F22,000 [31]
1993 Georg Maret [fr; de; arz] Physics [32]
1996 Sergiu Klainerman Mathematics [33]
1997 Raoul Ranjeva Biology [34]
1998 Philippe Biane Mathematics [35]
1999 Hervé Nifenecker Physics [36]
2001 Thierry Gaude Biology F20,000 [34][37]
2002 Christian Gérard Mathematics [35]
2004 Rémi Monasson Physics [36]
2006 Arnaud Cheritat and Xavier Buff Mathematics [35]
2007 Alain Pugin Biology [34]
2008 Marie-Noëlle Bussac Physics €3,000 [36]
2010 David Lannes Mathematics €2,500 [35]
2011 Olivier Loudet Biology €2,500 [34]
2012 Laurent Sanchez-Palencia Physics €2,500 [38]
2013 Zoé Chatzidakis Mathematics [39]
2014 Teva Vernoux Biology €2,000 [40]
2015 Jean-Claude Garreau Physics €2,000 [41]
2017 Nikolay Tzvetkov [fr; de] Mathematics [42]
2019 Michaël Le Bars Physics €1,500 [43]
2020 Phillipe Eyssidieux, Vincent Guedj
and Ahmed Zeriahi		 Mathematics €1,500 [44]
2021 Emmanuelle Bayer Biology €1,500 [45]
2023 Eleonora Di Nezza Mathematics €2,000 [46]

See also

References

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