Frederick W. Lanchester Prize

The Frederick W. Lanchester Prize is an Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences prize (U.S. $5,000 cash prize and medallion) given for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English.^[1] It is named after Frederick W. Lanchester.

Past winners[]

Source: INFORMS

• 1954
• 1955
• 1956
• 1957 Maurice F. C . Allais, and
• 1959 , Robert Herman, Elliott Waters Montroll and
• 1960
• 1961
• 1962 and
• 1963 and Ralph E. Gomory
• 1964
• 1965 Michel Balinski and Rufus Isaacs
• 1966 Stafford Beer
• 1967 and Charles S. Beightler
• 1968 , and Philip M. Morse
• 1969 Harvey M. Wagner
• 1971 Edward E. David, John G. Truxal and
• 1972 Richard C. Larson
• 1973 Herbert Scarf, , and
• 1974 and
• 1975
• 1976 Ralph Keeney, Howard Raiffa and Leonard Kleinrock
• 1977 Richard Karp, Gérard P. Cornuéjols, and George Nemhauser
• 1979 Michael R. Garey and David S. Johnson
• 1980 David M. Eddy
• 1981 and William Massy
• 1982
• 1983 Martin Shubik, Ellis L. Johnson, Manfred W. Padberg and
• 1984 Narendra Karmarkar and Robert Tarjan
• 1985 Michael Maltz
• 1986 Alexander Schrijver and Peter Whittle
• 1988
• 1989 Jean Walrand, George L. Nemhauser and
• 1990 Alvin E. Roth and Marilda Sotomayor
• 1991 Frank P. Kelly
• 1992 , Nimrod Megiddo, , and
• 1993 Thomas L. Magnanti, James B. Orlin and Ravindra K. Ahuja
• 1994 Edward Kaplan, Richard Cottle, and Richard Stone
• 1995 Robert J. Aumann, Michael B. Maschler, , and Richard E. Stearns
• 1996
• 1997 R. Tyrrell Rockafellar and Roger J-B Wets
• 2000 Olvi Mangasarian
• 2001 J. Michael Harrison
• 2003 and Ward Whitt
• 2004 Alexander Schrijver^[2]
• 2005 and
• 2006
• 2007 , Robert E. Bixby, Vašek Chvátal, and William J. Cook
• 2008 and , and
• 2009 Not awarded
• 2010 Not awarded
• 2011 David Easley and Jon Kleinberg
• 2012 Not awarded
• 2013 David P. Williamson and David Shmoys
• 2014 Not awarded
• 2015 , and Gérard P. Cornuéjols
• 2016 Not awarded
• 2017 Not awarded
• 2018 Not awarded
• 2019 Tim Roughgarden, , , and
• 2020: Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Daniel Kuhn
• 2021: Dimitris Bertsimas, Jack Dunn

See also[]

• List of business and industry awards
• List of prizes named after people

References[]