Heinz Hopf Prize


The Heinz Hopf Prize is awarded every two years at ETH Zurich. The prize honours outstanding scientific work in the field of pure mathematics. It is named after the German mathematician Heinz Hopf, Professor of Mathematics at ETH from 1931 to 1965. The prize amount of 30,000 Swiss Francs is awarded on the occasion of the Heinz Hopf Lectures that are given at ETH by the laureate.
The prize was awarded for the first time in October 2009.

Laureates

YearNameInstituteLectures Title
2009Robert MacPherson Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonHow nature tiles space
2011Michael Rapoport University of BonnHow geometry meets arithmetic
2013Yakov Eliashberg
Helmut Hofer
Stanford University
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
From dynamical systems to geometry and back
2015Claire Voisin Institut de Mathématiques de JussieuDiagonals in algebraic geometry
2017Richard Schoen Stanford UniversityHow curvature shapes space
2019Ehud HrushovskiUniversity of OxfordLogic and geometry: the model theory of finite fields and difference fields