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href="Crafoord_Prize/">Crafoord Prize</a> </li><li><a href="Turing_Award/">Turing Award</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>International Mathematical Union Awards</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="FieldsMedal/">Fields Medal</a> </li><li><a href="GaussPrize/">Gauss Prize</a> </li><li><a href="IMUNevanlinnaPrize/">Nevanlinna Prize</a> </li></td><td> <li><a href="Chern_Medal/">Chern Medal</a> </li><li><a href="ICM_Noether_Lecture/">ICM Emmy Noether Lecture</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>Royal Society Prizes</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="CopleyMedal/">Royal Society Copley Medal</a> </li><li><a href="RoyalMedal/">Royal Society Royal Medal</a> </li></td><td> <li><a href="SylvesterMedal/">Royal Society Sylvester Medal</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>London Mathematical Society Prizes</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="LMSBennettPrize/">LMS Anne Bennett Prize</a> </li><li><a href="LMSBerwick/">LMS Berwick Prizes</a> </li><li><a href="LMSDeMorganMedal/">LMS De Morgan Medal</a> </li><li><a href="LMSFrolichPrize/">LMS Fr枚lich Prize</a> </li><li><a href="Hirst_Prize/">LMS Hirst Prize and Lectureship</a> </li><li><a href="LMSNaylorPrize/">LMS Naylor Prize</a> </li></td><td> <li><a href="LMSShephardPrize/">LMS Shephard Prize</a> </li><li><a href="LMSSeniorWhiteheadPrize/">LMS Senior Whitehead Prize</a> </li><li><a href="LMSWhiteheadPrize/">LMS Whitehead Prize</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>American Mathematical Society Prizes</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="AMSBocherPrize/">AMS B枚cher Prize</a> </li><li><a href="AMSColePrize_algebra/">AMS Cole Prize for algebra</a> </li><li><a href="AMSColePrize_num_theory/">AMS Cole Prize for number theory</a> </li><li><a href="AMSConantPrize/">AMS Levi L Conant Prize</a> </li><li><a href="AMSSatterPrize/">AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize Prize</a> </li></td><td> <li><a href="AMSSteelePrize/">AMS Leroy P Steele Prize</a> </li><li><a href="AMSVeblenPrize/">AMS Veblen Prize</a> </li><li><a href="AMSWienerPrize/">AMS Norbert Wiener Prize</a> </li><li><a href="BirkhoffPrize/">AMS/SIAM Garrett Birkhoff Prize</a> </li><li><a href="AMSFulkerson/">AMS Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>Royal Statistical Society Prizes</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="RSSGuyGold/">RSS Guy Medal in Gold</a> </li><li><a href="RSSGuySilver/">RSS Guy Medal in Silver</a> </li></td><td> <li><a href="RSSGuyBronze/">RSS Guy Medal in Bronze</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Prizes</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="SIAMKleinmanPrize/">SIAM Ralph E Kleinman Prize</a> </li><li><a href="SIAMPolyaPrize/">SIAM George P贸lya Prize</a> </li><li><a href="SIAMReidsPrize/">SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize</a> </li></td><td> <li><a href="SIAMService/">SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service</a> </li><li><a href="SIAMVonKarmanPrize/">SIAM Theodore von K谩rm谩n Prize</a> </li><li><a href="SIAMDahlquist/">SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>Japanese Mathematical Society Prizes</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="MSJAlgebraPrize/">MSJ Algebra Prize</a> </li><li><a href="MSJAnalysisPrize/">MSJ Analysis Prize</a> </li><li><a href="MSJGeometryPrize/">MSJ Geometry Prize</a> </li></td><td> <li><a href="Spring_Prize/">MSJ Iyanaga and Spring Prizes</a> </li><li><a href="Autumn_Prize/">MSJ Autumn Prize</a> </li><li><a href="MSJSekiTakakazuPrize/">MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>Australian/New Zealand Mathematical Societies Awards</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="AuMSMedal/">Australian MS Medal</a> </li><li><a href="AuMSSzekeresMedal/">Australian MS Szekeres Medal</a> </li><li><a href="Gavin_Brown_Prize/">Australian MS Gavin Brown Prize</a> </li><li><a href="ANZIAM_medal/">ANZIAM medal</a> </li></td><td> <li><a href="J_H_Michell_Medal/">ANZIAM J H Michell Medal</a> </li><li><a href="New_Zealand_Research_Award/">New Zealand MS Research Award</a> </li><li><a href="Forder_Lecturers/">New Zealand MS Forder Lecturers</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>Association for Women in Mathematics awards</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="Birman_Research_Prize/">Joan and Joseph Birman Prize</a> </li><li><a href="Michler_Memorial_Prize/">Ruth I Michler Memorial Prize</a> </li><li><a href="Sadosky_Prize/">Sadosky Prize in Analysis</a> </li></td><td> <li><a href="Schafer_Mathematics_Prize/">Alice T Schafer Prize</a> </li><li><a href="Research_Prize_in_Algebra/">Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Awards</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="Collatz/">ICIAM Collatz Prize</a> </li><li><a href="Lagrange/">ICIAM Lagrange Prize</a> </li><li><a href="Maxwell/">ICIAM Maxwell Prize</a> </li></td><td> <li><a href="Pioneer/">ICIAM Pioneer Prize</a> </li><li><a href="Buchin/">ICIAM Su Buchin Prize</a> </li></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>Other Prizes and Awards</h4> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="50%"> <li><a href="Wilks_award/">American Statistical Association Wilks Award</a> </li><li><a href="Balzan_Prize/">Balzan Prize in Mathematics</a> </li><li><a href="Breakthrough_Prize/">Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics</a> </li><li><a href="CMSCoxeterJamesPrize/">Canadian MS Coxeter-James Prize</a> </li><li><a 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