I am aiming for these Prizes, Awards and Honors. Perhaps you will too!
Mathematics
- The Abel Prize
- Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
- Each award is worth $3 million; the most lucrative academic prize in the world.
- Wolf Prize In Mathematics
- The Fields Medal (Official Site)
- Awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years.
- [Personal Secret: I am aiming for the 2018 Fields Medal! Let’s see what happens!]
Physics
- Nobel Prize in Physics (Official Site)
- Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (Official Site)
- Each award is worth $3 million; the most lucrative academic prize in the world.
- Wolf Prize in Physics (Official Site)
- Enrico Fermi Award
- Awarded for lifetime achievement in the development, use, or production of energy.
Life Sciences; Physiology & Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- Founded in 2013 by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang. Each award is worth $3 million.
- Lasker Awards
- Wolf Prize In Medicine
Computer Science
- Turing Award (Official Site)
- An annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery to “an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community”
- Computers and Thought Award
- A biennial award presented at IJCAI conferences to outstanding young scientists (under the age 35) in artificial intelligence.
Engineering & Technology
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Chemistry
Economics
Prizes for Successful Completion of a Breakthrough Challenge
- XPrize Foundation [Official Site]
- “An XPRIZE is a highly leveraged, incentivized prize competition that pushes the limits of what’s possible to change the world for the better” according to the Official Website.
- Challenges hosted by DARPA:
Peace; Humanitarian
Literature
Honors
