Frederick W. Lanchester Prize

Last updated December 04, 2025

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

Past winners of the prize are:^[2]

1954 Leslie C. Edie
1955 Georges Brigham
1956 Richard E. Zimmerman
1957 Maurice F. C . Allais, Clayton J. Thomas and Walter L. Deemer, Jr
1959 Robert E. Chandler, Robert Herman, Elliott Waters Montroll and A.M. Lee
1960 Herman F. Karreman
1961 Elio M. Ventura
1962 Robert M. Oliver and A.H. Samuel
1963 Paul C. Gilmore and Ralph E. Gomory
1964 Frederick M. Scherer
1965 Michel Balinski and Rufus Isaacs
1966 Stafford Beer
1967 Douglass J. Wilde and Charles S. Beightler
1968 Anthony V. Fiacco, Garth P. McCormick and Philip M. Morse
1969 Harvey M. Wagner
1971 Edward E. David, John G. Truxal and E.J. Piel
1972 Richard C. Larson
1973 Herbert Scarf, Terje Hansen, Louis M. Goreux and Alan S. Manne
1974 Peter Kolesar and Warren E. Walker
1975 Lawrence D. Stone
1976 Ralph Keeney, Howard Raiffa and Leonard Kleinrock
1977 Richard Karp, Gérard P. Cornuéjols, Marshall L. Fisher and George Nemhauser
1979 Michael R. Garey and David S. Johnson
1980 David M. Eddy
1981 David Hopkins and William Massy
1982 Karl-Heinz Borgwardt
1983 Martin Shubik, Ellis L. Johnson, Manfred W. Padberg and Harlan Crowder
1984 Narendra Karmarkar and Robert Tarjan
1985 Michael Maltz
1986 Alexander Schrijver and Peter Whittle
1988 Robin Roundy
1989 Jean Walrand, George L. Nemhauser and Laurence A. Wolsey
1990 Alvin E. Roth and Marilda Sotomayor
1991 Frank P. Kelly
1992 Masakazu Kojima, Nimrod Megiddo, Shinji Mizuno, Toshihito Noma and Akiko Yoshise
1993 Thomas L. Magnanti, James B. Orlin and Ravindra K. Ahuja
1994 Edward Kaplan, Richard Cottle, Jong-Shi Pang and Richard Stone
1995 Robert J. Aumann, Michael B. Maschler, Martin L. Puterman, and Richard E. Stearns
1996 George Fishman
1997 R. Tyrrell Rockafellar and Roger J-B Wets
2000 Olvi Mangasarian
2001 J. Michael Harrison
2003 Nicholas Vieille and Ward Whitt
2004 Alexander Schrijver ^[3]
2005 Kalyan T. Talluri and Garrett J. van Ryzin
2006 Paul Glasserman
2007 David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby, Vašek Chvátal, and William J. Cook
2008 Warren P. Adams and Hanif D. Sherali, and Lawrence M. Wein
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 Michele Conforti, Giacomo Zambell and Gérard P. Cornuéjols
2016 Not awarded
2017 Not awarded
2018 Not awarded
2019 Tim Roughgarden, Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur, N. Bora Keskin and Assaf Zeevi
2020: Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Daniel Kuhn
2021: Dimitris Bertsimas, Jack Dunn
2022: Daniel Russo, Benjamin Van Roy, Yurii Nesterov
2023: Guanghui Lan, Rakesh V. Vohra
2024: Itai Ashlagi, Mark Braverman, Yash Kanoria, Jacob Leshno, Peng Shi, Anatoli Juditsky, Arkadi Nemirovski
2025: Boris Mordukhovich

References

↑ INFORMS Lanchester Prize page Archived 2015-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "Frederick W. Lanchester Prize", informs.org, INFORMS , retrieved 2025-12-02
↑ ERCIM news Lex Schrijver wins Lanchester Prize.

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[1] INFORMS Lanchester Prize page Archived 2015-10-02 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Frederick W. Lanchester Prize", informs.org, INFORMS , retrieved 2025-12-02

[3] ERCIM news Lex Schrijver wins Lanchester Prize.

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