David Mumford - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Mumford was awarded a Fields Medal in 1974. He was a MacArthur Fellow from 1987 to 1992. He won the Shaw Prize in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition by the American Mathematical Society. In 2008 he was awarded the Wolf Prize; on receiving the prize in Jerusalem from Shimon Peres, Mumford announced that he was donating half of the prize money to Birzeit University in the Palestinian territories and half to Gisha, an Israeli organization that advocates for the right to education and freedom of movement of Palestinians. In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Science.

There is a long list of awards and honors besides the above, including

• Westinghouse Science Talent Search finalist, 1953.
• Junior Fellow at Harvard from 1958 to 1961.
• Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
• Honorary Fellow from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1978.
• Honorary D. Sc. from the University of Warwick in 1983.
• Foreign Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, in 1991.
• Honorary Member of London Mathematical Society in 1995.
• Elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997.
• Honorary D. Sc. from Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2000.
• Honorary D. Sc. from Rockefeller University in 2001.
• Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2005 and 2009.
• Foreign Member of The Royal Society in 2008.
• Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
• Honorary Doctorate from Brown University in 2011.

He was elected President of the International Mathematical Union in 1995 and served from 1995 to 1999.