Smith's Prize

The Smith Prize is an annual of the University of Cambridge to two students for outstanding work in mathematics (especially applied mathematics ) or theoretical physics award price. The award was presented in 1768 by the English mathematician Robert Smith ( 1689-1768 ) donated from the proceeds of the South Sea Bubble. He is awarded since 1769 (except 1917) and was, for example, 1998 250 pounds. By 1885 he was awarded for the best in a particular mathematical examination, then for an essay.

In 1998 he was awarded the Rayleigh Prize (1911 donated ) and the TJ Knight Price merged to Smith -Knight price and Rayleigh -Knight price.

As the price still was awarded by examination, were, among others, George Gabriel Stokes ( 1841), Arthur Cayley (1842 ), John Couch Adams (1843 ), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ( 1845), Isaac Todhunter (1848 ), Peter Guthrie Tait (1852 ), James Clerk Maxwell ( 1854), Edward Routh (1854 ), John Strutt (Baron Rayleigh ) (1865 ), Alfred George Greenhill (1870 ), Horace Lamb ( 1872), WW Rouse ball ( 1874), William Burnside (1875 ), Joseph Larmor (1880 ) JJ Thomson ( 1880) winner.

Prize winners due to a price Essays

The list is not exhaustive.

  • Mathematics Price
  • Science Award (United States)
  • Award by Person
South Sea Company Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet Peter Tait (physicist) W. W. Rouse Ball J. J. Thomson E. T. Whittaker Ernest Barnes Gilbert Walker G. H. Hardy Ebenezer Cunningham Harry Bateman John Edensor Littlewood Sydney Chapman (mathematician) Edward Lindsay Ince Albert Ingham Edward Arthur Milne Sydney Goldstein J. A. Todd Fred Hoyle I. J. Good Abdus Salam John Kingman
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