Mayhew Prize
The Mayhew Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge to the student showing the greatest distinction in applied mathematics, primarily for courses offered by DAMTP, but also for some courses offered by the Statistical Laboratory, in the CASM examinations, also known as Part III of the Mathematical Tripos.[1] This includes only about half of all students taking the CASM examinations, since the rest are taking mainly pure mathematics courses, and so the winner of the Mayhew Prize is not equivalent to obtaining the highest mark on the CASM examinations. There is currently no equivalent prize for pure mathematics, due to the absence of funds.
The value of the prize fund was £13,072 in 2006.[2]
List of winners
NB: list below compiled mainly from "The Times" newspaper archive.[3] In several years the class lists were not published in main part of the Times (or not at all), and so these years are omitted below pending further research in old class lists at Cambridge.
| Year | Winner | Country | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Sydney Goldstein | ||
| 1926 | John Arthur Gaunt and Alan Herries Wilson | ||
| 1927 | J. Hargreaves | ||
| 1928 | M.J. Dean | ||
| 1929 | K.L. Dunkley and Eustace Neville Fox | ||
| 1930 | John Conrad Jaeger[4] |  Australia
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| 1931 | G.W. Carter | ||
| 1932 | Robert Allan Smith | ||
| 1935 | N.B. Slater | ||
| 1936 | Sir Fred Hoyle [5] and George Stanley Rushbrooke |  United Kingdom
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| 1937 | J. Corner and Charles Henry Brian Priestley | ||
| 1938 | F. Booth | ||
| 1939 | Sir John Currie Gunn and A. Nisbet | United Kingdom
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| 1947 | Keith Stewartson [6] | United Kingdom
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| 1948 | John Anthony Pople [7] | United Kingdom
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Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1998)[8], fellow of the Royal Society (1961) and Knight Commander (KBE) of the Order of the British Empire (2003). |
| 1950 | Roger John Tayler[9] | United Kingdom[10]
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Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London |
| 1954 | Jeffrey Goldstone and Stanley Mandelstam | ||
| 1955 | Gordon Robert Screaton | ||
| 1956 | M.H. McAndrew and Graham P. McCauley | ||
| 1957 | C. Hunter and J. Nuttall | ||
| 1958 | I. Hunter | ||
| 1959 | Christopher J. Bradley and Robin W. Lardner | ||
| 1960 | John Robert Taylor | ||
| 1961 | John B. Boyling | ||
| 1962 | David Branson and W.G. Dixon | ||
| 1963 | Timothy John Pedley | ||
| 1964 | Geoffrey Charles Fox | ||
| 1965 | Christopher J.R. Garrett | ||
| 1966 | Neil W. Macfadyen and David L. Moss | ||
| 1967 | Peter Goddard and A.P. Hunt | ||
| 1968 | David John Collop and Jonathan Richard Ellis | ||
| 1969 | P.V. Collins | ||
| 1970 | John Margarson Huthnance | ||
| 1971 | David Martin Scott and Malcolm A. Swinbanks | ||
| 1972 | Peter David D'Eath | ||
| 1973 | M.J. Bolton and Peter Harrison[11] | United Kingdom
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Professor of Computing at Imperial College, London |
| 1974 | Bernard Silverman and William Morton | United Kingdom
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| 1975 | L.R. Thomlinson and Richard Robert Weber | ||
| 1976 | J.Y. Probert and Leonard Chris Gordon Rogers | ||
| 1978 | Stephen John Cowley and Glyn Patrick Moody | ||
| 1980 | Russell J. Gerrard | ||
| 1981 | William Shaw[12] | United Kingdom
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Professor of Financial Mathematics at King's College, London |
| 1982 | Richard David Ball and S.G. Goodyear | ||
| 1983 | Peter Julian Ruback | ||
| 1984 | John Ronald Lister | ||
| 1985 | Andrew David Gilbert | ||
| 1986 | Andrew William Woods[13] | Professorial Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and Head of BP Institute Cambridge | |
| 1996 | Damon Jude Wischik[14] | ||
| 2000 | Gareth J.R. Birdsall | ||
| 2001 | Sean Hartnoll and Aninda Sinha[15] | United Kingdom India
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| 2002 | Robert Whittaker [16] | United Kingdom[17]
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| 2003 | Joseph Conlon | United Kingdom
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| 2004 | William Hall[18] | ||
| 2005 | Claude Warnick [19] | ||
| 2006 | Chris Cawthorn [20] | ||
| 2007 | Steffen Gielen [21] |  Germany
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| 2008 | Antoine Labatie |
References
- ^ http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/so_ch12.pdf p.815
- ^ Cambridge University Trust Funds Report p.36
- ^ Mayhew Prize winners list
- ^ http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140625b.htm and http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/jaeger.htm
- ^ Hoyle biography
- ^ Stewartson biography
- ^ "Quantum Chemistry Comes of Age" by George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman from The Chemical Educator, Vol. 5, No. 3, S1430-4171(99)06333-7, 10.1007/s00897990333a, © 2000 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
- ^ Official homepage of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998
- ^ Prof. Roger Tayler Obituaries
- ^ The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Roger Tayler
- ^ AESOP : People / Prof. Peter Harrison
- ^ [1] William Shaw's home page in King's College London Financial Mathematics group
- ^ SPE AbuDhabi Section
- ^ http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Wischik/AboutMe/cv.html
- ^ Aninda Sinha-CV
- ^ Dr. Robert J. Whittaker (Research Fellow)
- ^ Robert Whittaker
- ^ Jesus College Annual Report 2004 p.33
- ^ The Queens’ College Record 2006
- ^ http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/cjc77/stuff/cjc-cv.pdf
- ^ http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/~dph3pt1/files/TanedoMSc.pdf p.13
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