Mathematics Awards & Medals
The Archibald Henderson Medal
Presented to undergraduate for excellence in Mathematics: specifically demonstrating a high degree of mathematical ability and the greatest promise of originality in the field.
The Archibald Henderson Mathematics Medal was established in 1931, named after the late Archibald Henderson, a mathematician, teacher, literary critic, biographer, and historian. For fifty years Henderson was a member of the Department of Mathematics at Chapel Hill, first as student, then as full professor.
Professor Henderson became department head in 1920, and was appointed Kenan Professor in 1925, serving until his retirement in 1948. Under his direction, the mathematics department expanded enormously, increasing its graduate program, adding extensive opportunities in pure mathematics, and acquiring a departmental library that was among the best in the South. The Archibald Henderson Mathematics Medal replaced the Major William B. Cain Award which had been established in 1908.
Archibald Henderson
07/17/1877 – 12/06/1963
Alvis Zhaodh
Current Award Recipient
Past Recipients
2020 | Daniel Pezzi
2019 | Scott Emmons
2018 | Shengding Sun
2017 | David John Spencer
2016 | Samuel DeHority
2015 | Anja Ellen Katsevich
2014 | Marshall Ward Lochbaum
2013 | Shreyas Samir Tikare & Nathan M. Vos
2012 | William Arthur Schlieper, III
2011 | George Perry Harabin
2010 | Matthew Blair Hernandez
2009 | Joshua Raymond Schwartz
2008 | Gregory Liang Howard
2007 | Erica Zuhr
2006 | Steven T. Piantadosi & Timothy M. Stallmann
2005 | Richard Christopher Waters
2004 | Joshua A. Carter
2003 | John P. Hobach & Shilpa M. Khatri
2002 | Christopher Scott Kunkel
2001 | Clark Barwick
2000 | Daniel Goldstein
1998 | Sanjai Gupta
1997 | Nelia Charalambous
1996 | Paul E. Rupe
1995 | Brent Hetherwick
1994 | Akira Negi
1993 | Christopher Wiatt Myers
1992 | Stefanie Anja Schoenbach
1988 | Andrew Christopher Martin
1987 | Robin Joseph Cunningham
1986 | Garth Hampton Payne
1985 | Adam Frederick Falk
1984 | No prize awarded
1983 | Nathan Blackburn Smyth
1982 | Edward John Rak, Jr.
1981 | Peter Niels Heller
1980 | Samuel Ernest Landsberger
1979 | John Stuart Norwood
1978 | Steven Ross Thompson
1977 | Unni Manboodiri
1976 | Emily Stough Murphee
1975 | Lenwood Scott Heath, Jr
1974 | William Floyd
1973 | Michael Cortez Cox
1972 | Ralph Martin May & Tavan Thomas Trent
1971 | James Patrick Jarvis
1970 | Thomas Jeffrey Logan
1969 | Richard Joseph Schroer
1968 | Craig Winston Harrington, Jr.
1967 | Robert Lee Soo & Charles Dixon Cunningham
1966 | Fred William Roush
1965 | Lavon Barry Page
1964 | Christopher Joseph Daly
1963 | Frederick Hailey Proom & Ralph Conner Reid, Jr.
1962 | John Bason Wagoner
1961 | Julia Dunning
1960 | James David Brock
1959 | Albert Deal
1958 | Klaus Witz
1957 | Elizabeth Starnes Parker
1956 | Maurice King
1955 | John Gwynn
1954 | Bonny Baker
1953 | Robert Heath
1952 | Nathan Russell Roberson, Jr.
1951 | Harris Judson Hardy
1950 | Arthur Simeon Winsor, Jr.
1949 | Rodney Lee Borum
1948 | Thomas Jefferson Peterson, Jr.
1947 | John McDavid Loftis
1946 | Charles Norwood Reilley
1945 | Charles Lawton Hayes, Jr.
1944 | Howard Gray
1943 | John Moore Ruth
1942 | Stephen Bruce Langfeld
1941 | Irving Alperin
1940 | Arthur Watts Clark
1939 | Martin Bernard Kalkstein
1938 | Leah Robinson
1937 | Lawrence Earle Hinkle, Jr.
1936 | Robert Hooke
1935 | Robert Francis Furchgott
1934 | Edward McDonald Serrem
1933 | George Julian Koch
1932 | Whitfield Cobb
1931 | Georgia May Edgar
1930 | Abraham Rosenblatt
1927 | E.A. Cameron
1926 | J.A. Upshaw
1925 | R.C. Bullock
1924 | V.A. Hoyle
1923 | Z.T. Fortescue
1921 | L.J. Phipps
1920 | C. Edwards
1919 | W.F. Hunter
1918 | C.M. Hazlehurst
1917 | W.F. Morrison
1916 | C.S. Harris
1915 | G.W. Smith
1914 | W.S. Wicker
1913 | H.W. Collins
1912 | J.B. Scarborough
1911 | A.L. Field
1910 | G.C. Mann
1909 | O.P. Rhyne