Awards & Winners

Salem Prize

Salem Prize

The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series. The prize is considered highly prestigious and many of the recipients of Salem prize have also been awarded the Fields Medal later in their career. The prize was 5000 French Francs in 1990.
Date Established : 1968

Check all the winners of Salem Prize presented under Salem Prize since 1968 .


Assaf Naor

(For contributions to the structural theory of metric spaces and its applications to computer science.)

Ben Green

(For his contributions to combinatorial number theory related to progressions of primes.)

Kannan Soundararajan

(For contributions to the area of Dirichlet L-functions and related character sums.)

Fedor Nazarov

(For his work in harmonic analysis, in particular, the uncertainty principle, and his contribution to the development of Bellman function methods.)

Trevor Wooley

(For making significant breakthroughs on Waring's problem.)

Christoph Thiele, Michael Lacey

(For their studies on the bilinear Hilbert transform.)

Mitsuhiro Shishikura

(For showing that a rational function of degree d\\, has at most 2d-2\\, nonrepelling periodic cycles and for proving that the boundary of the Mandelbrot set has Hausdorff dimension two.)

Alexander Volberg

(For his work in harmonic analysis.)

Thomas Wolff

(For his contributions to analysis and particularly to the Kakeya conjecture.)