title: Émile Picard Medal
text: # Émile Picard Medal
  
  The Émile Picard Medal (or Médaille Émile Picard) is a medal named for Émile Picard awarded every 6 years to an outstanding mathematician by the Institut de France, Académie des sciences. This rewards a mathematician designated by the Academy of Sciences every six years. The first medal was awarded in 1946.
  
  ## Recipients
  
  The Émile Picard Medal recipients are
  
  * Maurice Fréchet (1946)
  * Paul Lévy (1953)
  * Henri Cartan (1959)
  * Szolem Mandelbrojt (1965),
  * Jean-Pierre Serre (1971)
  * Alexandre Grothendieck (1977)
  * André Néron (1983)
  * François Bruhat (1989)
  * Jean-Pierre Kahane (1995)
  * Jacques Dixmier (2001)
  * Louis Boutet de Monvel (2007)
  * Luc Illusie (2012)
  * Yves Colin de Verdière (2018)
  