Heinz Hopf Prize
The Heinz Hopf Prize is a mathematics prize, which is awarded every two years as part of the Heinz Hopf lectures at the ETH Zurich. The prize has a value of 30,000 Swiss francs and is awarded mathematics for outstanding work in the field of the pure. It is named after the mathematician Heinz Hopf.
The prize was awarded in 2009 for the first time. The prize money was donated by Dorothee and Alfred Aeppli.
The proposals for the choice of those who will be awarded the prize, meets the Heinz Hopf Prize Committee, whose members in 2009 Gisbert Wüstholz of the ETH Zurich, Erwin Bolthausen of the University of Zurich, Gerhard Huisken of the Max Planck society, were Frances Kirwan of the University of Oxford and Horst Knörrer of the ETH Zurich.
The Heinz Hopf lectures are independent of the price and have been around longer at the ETH. They were kept as 2001 by Don Zagier, 2003 by Helmut Hofer and 2005 by Curtis T. McMullen. The winners of the Heinz Hopf Prize but also give a Hopf lecture. Must be distinguished from the Heinz Hopf Lectureship, a scholarship for post- graduate students at the ETH.