Émile Picard Medal
# Émile Picard Medal

The Émile Picard Medal (or Médaille Émile Picard) is a medal named for Émile Picard awarded every 6 years to an outstanding mathematician by the Institut de France, Académie des sciences. This rewards a mathematician designated by the Academy of Sciences every six years. The first medal was awarded in 1946.

## Recipients

The Émile Picard Medal recipients are

* Maurice Fréchet (1946)
* Paul Lévy (1953)
* Henri Cartan (1959)
* Szolem Mandelbrojt (1965),
* Jean-Pierre Serre (1971)
* Alexandre Grothendieck (1977)
* André Néron (1983)
* François Bruhat (1989)
* Jean-Pierre Kahane (1995)
* Jacques Dixmier (2001)
* Louis Boutet de Monvel (2007)
* Luc Illusie (2012)
* Yves Colin de Verdière (2018)
