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Steele Prizes</u></span></strong></a><span style='mso-bookmark:steele'></span><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>(Inception to date)</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span></span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:Verdana'>Exhibit 4G</span></strong><span style='font-family: Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>These prizes were established in 1970 in honor of George D. Birkhoff, William F. Osgood, and William C. Graustein, and are endowed under terms of a bequest from Leroy P. Steele. From 1970 to 1976 one or more prizes were awarded each year for outstanding published mathematical research. In 1977 the Council of the AMS modified the terms. Since then, up to three prizes have been awarded each year in three categories: (1) the cumulative influence of the total mathematical work of the recipient, high level of research over a period of time, particular influence on the development of a field, and influence on mathematics through Ph.D. students; (2) a book or substantial survey or expository-research paper; (3) a paper that proved of fundamental or lasting importance in its field, or a model of important research. From 1993 on, the list focuses on those who won The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1970:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Solomon Lefschetz</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for his paper, <em>A page of mathematical autobiography</em>, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society,volume 74 (1968), pp. 854-879.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1971:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To James B. Carrell for his paper, written jointly with Jean A. Dieudonne, <em>Invariant theory, old and new</em>, Advances in Mathematics, volume 4 (1970), pp. 1-80.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1971:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Jean A. Dieudonné for his paper, <em>Algebraic geometry</em>, Advances in Mathematics, volume 3 (1969), pp. 223-321, and for his paper, written jointly with James B. Carrell, <em>Invariant theory, old and new</em>, Advances in Mathematics, volume 4 (1970), pp. 1-80.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1971:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Phillip A. Griffiths for his paper, <em>Periods of integrals on algebraic manifolds</em>, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, volume 76 (1970), pp. 228-296.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1972:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Edward B. Curtis for his paper, <em>Simplicial homotopy theory</em>, Advances in Mathematics, volume 6 (1971), pp. 107-209.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1972:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To William J. Ellison for his paper, <em>Waring's problem</em>, American Mathematical Monthly, volume 78 (1971), pp. 10-36.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1972:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Lawrence F. Payne for his paper, <em>Isoperimetric inequalities and their applications</em>, SIAM Review, volume 9 (1967), pp. 453-488.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1972:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Dana S. Scott for his paper, <em>A proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis</em>, Mathematical Systems Theory, volume 1 (1967), pp. 89-111.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>January 1975:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Lipman Bers</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for his paper, <em>Uniformization, moduli, and Kleinian groups</em>, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, volume 4 (1972), pp. 257-300.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>January 1975:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Martin D. Davis</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for his paper, <em>Hilbert's tenth problem is unsolvable</em>, American Mathematical Monthly, volume 80 (1973), pp. 233-269.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>January 1975:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Joseph L. Taylor for his paper, <em>Measure algebras</em>, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, Number 16, American Mathematical Society, 1972.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1975:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To George W. Mackey for his paper, <em>Ergodic theory and its significance for statistical mechanics and probability theory</em>, Advances in Mathematics, volume 12 (1974), pp. 178-286.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1975:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To H. Blaine Lawson for his paper, <em>Foliations</em>, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, volume 80 (1974), pp. 369-418.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:normal'><i>Source: American Mathematical Society and Jinfo.org Web site<o:p></o:p></i></span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>1976, 1977, 1978:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> No awards were made.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>January 1979:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Salomon Bochner</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for cumulative influence on the fields of probability theory, Fourier analysis, several complex variables, and differential geometry.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1979:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Antoni Zygmund for cumulative influence on the theory of Fourier series, real variables, and related areas of analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1980:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>André Weil</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for total effect of his work on the course of twentieth century mathematics, esp. the many areas in which he made fundamental contributions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1980:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Gerhard P. Hochschild</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for his significant work in homological algebra and its applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1981:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Oscar Zariski</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for work in algebraic geometry, especially his fundamental contributions to the algebraic foundations of this subject.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1982:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Fritz John</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for cumulative influence of total mathematical work, high level research over time, particular influence on development of a field, and influence on mathematics through Ph.D. students.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1983:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Shiing-Shen Chern for the cumulative influence of his total mathematical work, high level of research over a period of time, particular influence on the development of the field of differential geometry, and influence on mathematics through Ph.D. students.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1984:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Joseph L. Doob for his fundamental work in establishing probability as a branch of mathematics and for his continuing profound influence on its development.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1985:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Hassler Whitney for fundamental work on geometric problems, particularly general theory of manifolds, the study of differentiable functions on closed sets, in geometric integration theory, and geometry of the tangents to a singular analytic space.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>January 1986:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Saunders Mac Lane for his many contributions to algebra and algebraic topology, and in particular for his pioneering work in homological and categorical algebra.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1987:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Samuel Eilenberg</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for his fundamental contributions to topology and algebra, in particular for his classic papers on singular homology and his work on axiomatic homology theory which had a profound influence on the development of algebraic toplogy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1988:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Deane Montgomery for lasting impact on mathematics, particularly mathematics in America. He is a founder of the modern theory of transformation groups and is known for his contributions to the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1989:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Irving Kaplansky</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for his lasting impact on mathematics, particularly mathematics in America. By his example, enthusiastic exposition, and generosity, he has made changes in mathematics and inspired generations of younger mathematicians.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1990:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Raoul Bott</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for having been instrumental in changing the face of geometry and topology, with his incisive contributions to characteristic classes, K-theory, index theory, and other tools of modern mathematics.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1991:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Eugenio Calabi</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for his fundamental work on global differential geometry, especially complex differential geometry.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1991:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To Armand Borel for extensive contributions in geometry and topology, the theory of Lie groups, their lattices and representations and the theory of automorphic forms, the theory of algebraic groups and their representations and development efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>January 1993:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Peter D. Lax</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for his numerous and fundamental contributions to theory and applications of linear &amp; nonlinear partial differential equations and functional analysis, for his leadership in the development of computational &amp; applied mathematics, and for his extraordinary impact as a teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1993 - Lifetime Achievement:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Verdana'> To <b><u>Eugene B. Dynkin</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'> for his foundational contributions to Lie algebras and probability theory over a long period and production of outstanding research students in both Russia and the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>August 1994 - Lifetime Achievement:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Verdana'> To <b><u>Louis Nirenberg </u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'>for numerous basic contributions to linear and nonlinear partial differential equations and their application to complex analysis and differential geometry.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/199511/steele.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>August 1995 - Lifetime Achievement</span></a>:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> To John T. Tate for scientific accomplishments spanning four and a half decades. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/199611/comm-steele.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>August 1996 - Lifetime Achievement</span></a>:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'> To Goro Shimura for his important and extensive work on arithmetical geometry and automorphic forms; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/199703/comm-steele.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>January 1997 - Lifetime Achievement</span></a>:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Ralph S. Phillips</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> as one of the outstanding analysts of our time: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/199804/comm-steele-prizes.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>January 1998 - Lifetime Achievement</span></a>:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Nathan Jacobson</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for his many contributions to research, teaching, exposition, and the mathematical profession. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/199904/comm-steele-prz.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>January 1999 - Lifetime Achievement</span></a>:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Richard V. Kadison</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>. For almost half a century, Professor Kadison has been one of the world leaders in operator algebras.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/200004/comm-steele.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>January 2000 - Lifetime Achievement</span></a>:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Isadore M. Singer</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>. Singer's series of five papers with Michael F. Atiyah on the Index Theorem for elliptic operators and his three papers with Atiyah and V.K. Patodi on the Index Theorem for manifolds with boundary. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/200104/comm-steele.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>January 2001 - Lifetime Achievement</span></a>:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'> To <b><u>Harry Kesten</u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for many and deep contributions to probability theory and its applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/200204/comm-steeleprz.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>January 2002 - Lifetime Achievement</span></a>:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'> To Michael Artin for helping weave the fabric of modern algebraic geometry, and <b><u>Elias Stein</u></b></span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> for fundamental contributions to different branches of analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/200304/comm-steele.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>January 2003 - Lifetime Achievement</span></a>:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'> To Ron Graham for being a principal architect of rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics &amp; to Victor Guillemin for critical role in development of important areas in analysis and geometry. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/200304/comm-steele.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>January 200</span><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>4</span><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'> - Lifetime Achievement</span></a>: </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana;font-weight:normal'>To Cathleen Synge Morawetz for greatly influencing mathematics in the broad sense throughout her long and distinguished career.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana; font-weight:normal'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>January 2005  Lifetime Achievement</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana;font-weight:normal'>: To </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><u>Israel M. Gelfand</u></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:normal'> for profoundly influencing many fields of research through his own work and through his interactions with other mathematicians and students.</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>