Prize History

Citation

The 2024 Theodore von Kármán Prize is awarded to Karen E. Willcox for a notable application of mathematics to mechanicsand/or the engineering sciences made during the five to ten years preceding theaward. The award may be given for a significant achievement by one individualor a significant body of work that could have been produced by multiplecontributors.

Selection Committee

• Fadil Santosa (Chair)
• Penny Davies
• Timothy Davis

Citation

The 2020 Theodore von Kármán Prize is awarded to Kaushik Bhattacharya for his major mathematical and computational contributions to materials science.

Selection Committee

• L. Pamela Cook (Chair)
• Phillip Colella
• Fabio Nobile

Citation

The 2014 Theodore von Kármán Prize is awarded to Richard D. James, whose contributions to materials science and mathematics have shaped a vibrant community. Starting from his own experiments, he has forged a path from rational mechanics, via the calculus of variations, deep into elliptic regularity theory and back. In particular, the prize honors his seminal work with John Ball on shape memory alloys, his more recent work with Gero Friesecke and Stefan Müller on a nonlinear Korn inequality that played an essential role in the successful rigorous derivation of nonlinear plate theories, and his very recent discovery and analysis of low-hysteresis shape memory alloys.

Selection Committee

• Felix Otto (Chair)
• David Kinderlehrer
• Mary F. Wheeler

Citation

The 2014 Theodore von Kármán Prize is awarded to Weinan E for his deep mathematical contributions to fundamental questions in physics ranging from the structure of matter to turbulence, to a rejuvenation of numerical analysis in the light of multiple scales, and for his eclectic and ingenious solutions in scientific computing.

Selection Committee

• Felix Otto (Chair)
• David Kinderlehrer
• Mary F. Wheeler

• Charles Doering (Chair)
• Clint Dawson
• Charbel Farhat

Selection Committee

• J. Tinsley Oden (Chair)
• Thomas R. J. Hughes
• Richard James

Selection Committee

• Jerrold E. Marsden (Chair)
• Philippe Ciarlet
• Joseph B. Keller

Selection Committee

• Julian D. Cole (Chair)
• Stuart S. Antman

Selection Committee

• Marshall P. Tulin (Chair)
• Hirsh Cohen
• Julian D. Cole

1984 Julian D. Cole

Selection Committee

• Joseph B. Keller (Chair)
• George F. Carrier
• Marshall B. Tulin

1979 George F. Carrier and Joseph B. Keller

Selection Committee

• Richard C. DiPrima (Chair)
• Julian D. Cole
• Herbert B. Keller

1972 Sir Geoffrey Taylor

Selection Committee

• George F. Carrier (Chair)
• Lester Lees
• C.C. Li