Honors and Recognition
McDuff was the first to be awarded the Satter Prize in 1991 for her work on symplectic geometry; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1994), a Noether Lecturer (1998) and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1999). She was also a Plenary Lecturer at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians. With Dietmar Salamon, she co-authored the two highly influential and beautifully written textbooks Introduction to Symplectic Topology and J-Holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology. These are considered to be classic references in the field. In 2010, she was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society.
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