We are delighted to announce the recipients of the LMS Prizes in 2026. The awards were formally announced at the LMS Summer General Meeting on 3 July.
Prize winners will be presented with their certificates at the LMS Annual General Meeting on 20 November.
These prestigious awards recognise outstanding achievements and contributions across the mathematical sciences. Many congratulations to all our awardees on this well-deserved recognition!
Professor Martin Bridson FRS (University of Oxford) is awarded the Pólya Prize for his foundational contributions to the field of geometric group theory and his exceptional service to the mathematical community. Read the full citation.
Professor Gwyneth Stallard (Open University) is awarded the Senior Anne Bennett Prize for her unwavering promotion of and support for women in mathematics, and for her important contributions to complex dynamics. Read the full citation.
Professor Trevor Wooley FRS (Purdue University) is awarded the Senior Berwick Prize for his outstanding paper ‘Nested efficient congruencing and relatives of Vinogradov's mean value theorem’, published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society in 2019. Read the full citation.
Professor Andrew Archer (Loughborough University) is awarded the Shephard Prize for his groundbreaking work on classical dynamical density functional theory, and the application of equilibrium density functional theory to compute phase diagrams of multi-component systems such as ouzo. Read the full citation.
Professor Toby Gee FRS (Imperial College London) is awarded the Fröhlich Prize for his profound work on automorphy of Galois representations and Serre’s weight conjecture. Read the full citation.
Professor Costante Bellettini (University College London) is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his fundamental contributions to geometric analysis, particularly to regularity problems for minimal hypersurfaces and constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in geometry. Read the full citation.
Professor Jeffrey Galkowski (University College London) is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his profound contributions to geometric analysis, semiclassical analysis, numerical analysis, and their intersections. Read the full citation.
Professor Yuji Nakatsukasa (University of Oxford) is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his significant and wide-ranging contributions to numerical analysis, especially in numerical linear algebra and approximation theory. Read the full citation.
Professor Rachel Newton (King’s College London) is awarded a Whitehead Prize for her profound contributions to arithmetic statistics and to the arithmetic of rational points and 0-cycles on algebraic varieties. Read the full citation.
Professor Mark Powell (University of Glasgow) is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his outstanding contributions to 4-dimensional topology. Powell’s work combines methods from algebraic and geometric topology to great effect. Read the full citation.
Professor Dhruv Ranganathan (Cambridge University) is awarded a Whitehead Prize for groundbreaking work in logarithmic algebraic geometry, unifying algebraic, tropical and moduli theories, and creating powerful new methods for studying geometric degenerations and curve counting theories. Read the full citation.
Last updated: 3 July 2026