Distinguish from the De Morgan Medal awarded by the London Mathematical Society. The Morgan Prize (full name Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student) is an annual award given to an undergraduate student in the US, Canada, or Mexico who demonstrates superior mathematics research. The $1,200 award, endowed by Mrs. Frank Morgan of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1995. The award is made jointly by the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The Morgan Prize has been described as the highest honor given to an undergraduate in mathematics.
Previous winners
1995
Winner: Kannan Soundararajan (Analytic Number Theory, University of Michigan) Honorable mention: Kiran Kedlaya (Harvard University) 1996 Winner: Manjul Bhargava (Algebra, Harvard University) Honorable mention: Lenhard Ng (Harvard University) 1997 Winner: Jade Vinson (Analysis and Geometry, Washington University in St. Louis) Honorable mention: Vikaas S. Sohal (Harvard University) 1998 Winner: Daniel Biss (Combinatorial Group Theory and Topology, Harvard University) Honorable mention: Aaron F. Archer (Harvey Mudd College) 1999 Winner: Sean McLaughlin (Proof of the Dodecahedral Conjecture, University of Michigan) Honorable mention: Samit Dasgupta (Harvard University) 2000 Winner: Jacob Lurie (Lie Algebras, Harvard University) Honorable mention: Wai Ling Yee (University of Waterloo) 2001 Winner: Ciprian Manolescu (Floer Homology, Harvard University) Honorable mention: Michael Levin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2002 Winner: Joshua Greene (Proof of the Kneser conjecture, Harvey Mudd College) Honorable mention: None 2003 Winner: Melanie Wood (Belyi-extending maps and P-orderings, Duke University) Honorable mention: Karen Yeats (University of Waterloo) 2004 Winner: Reid W. Barton (Packing Densities of Patterns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Honorable mention: Po-Shen Loh (California Institute of Technology) 2005 Winner: Jacob Fox (Ramsey theory and graph theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Honorable mention: None 2007 Winner: Daniel Kane (Number Theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Honorable mention: None 2008 Winner: Nathan Kaplan (Algebraic number theory, Princeton University) Honorable mention: None 2009 Winner: Aaron Pixton (Algebraic topology and number theory, Princeton University) Honorable mention: Andrei Negut (Algebraic cobordism theory and dynamical systems, Princeton University) 2010 Winner: Scott Duke Kominers (Number theory, computational geometry, and mathematical economics, Harvard University) Honorable mention: Maria Monks (Combinatorics and number theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2011 Winner: Maria Monks (Combinatorics and number theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Honorable mention: Michael Viscardi (Algebraic geometry, Harvard University), Yufei Zhao (Combinatorics and number theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2012 Winner: John Pardon (Solving Gromov's problem on distortion of knots, Princeton University) Honorable mention: Hannah Alpert (Combinatorics, University of Chicago), Elina Robeva (Algebraic geometry, Stanford University) 2013 Winner: Fan Wei (Analysis and combinatorics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Honorable mention: Dhruv Ranganathan (Toric Gromov–Witten theory, Harvey Mudd College), Jonathan Schneider (Combinatorics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2014 Winner: Eric Larson (Algebraic geometry and number theory, Harvard University) Honorable mention: None 2015 Winner: Levent Alpoge (Number theory, probability theory, and combinatorics, Harvard University) Honorable mention: Akhil Mathew (Algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and category theory, Harvard University) 2016 Winner: Amol Aggarwal (Combinatorics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Honorable mention: Evan O'Dorney (Number Theory, algebra, and combinatorics, Harvard University) 2017 Winner: David H.