Stefan Bergman Prize

The Bergman Prize honors the memory of Stefan Bergman, best known for his research in several complex variables, as well as the Bergman projection and the Bergman kernel function that bear his name. A native of Poland, he taught at Stanford University for many years and died in 1977 at the age of 82. He was an AMS member for 35 years. When his wife died, the terms of her will stipulated that funds should go toward a special prize in her husband's honor.

The AMS was asked by the Wells Fargo Bank of California, the managers of the Bergman Trust, to assemble a committee to select recipients of the prize. In addition the Society assisted Wells Fargo in interpreting the terms of the will to assure sufficient breadth in the mathematical areas in which the prize may be given. Awards are made every year or two in: 1) the theory of the kernel function and its applications in real and complex analysis; or 2) function-theoretic methods in the theory of partial differential equations of elliptic type with attention to Bergman's operator method.

Recipients:
2006 :  Kengo Hirachi
2005 :  Elias M. Stein
2004 :  Joseph J. Kohn
2003:   M. Salah Baouendi and Linda Preiss Rothschild
2001:   László Lempert and Sidney Webster
2000:   Masatake Kuranishi
1999:   John P. D'Angelo
1997:   David E. Barrett and Michael Christ
1995:   Harold P. Boas and Emil J. Straube
1994:  John Erik Fornaess
1993:  Yum-Tong Siu
1992:  Charles Fefferman
1991:  Steven Bell and Ewa Ligocka
1989:  David Catlin