The 2003 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Science and Technology of Complexity
• Achievement:
  Creation of universal concepts in complex systems-chaos and fractals
• Lecture:
  Fractals and the measurement of roughness

Major Awards, Prizes, and Medals Received

1985	Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science “Magna est Veritas:”
1986	Franklin Medal for Signal and Eminent Service in Science
1988	Charles Proteus Steinmetz Medal
1988	Alumni Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Achievement; Caltech
1988	Senior Award (Humboldt Preis)
1988	“Science for Art” Prize
1989	Harvey Prize for Science and Technology
1991	Nevada Prize
1993	Wolf Foundation Prize for Physics
1994	Honda Prize
1996	Medaille de Vermeil: de la ville de Paris
1999	John Scott Award
1999	Lewis Fry Richardson Medal
2002	William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement: Sigma Xi

Academies

	Foreign Associate, then Member, USA National Academy of Sciences
	Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
	Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Memberships in Scientific Societies

	Member (honorary), Societe Physique de France.
	Fellow, American Physical Society.
	Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	Member, American Mathematical Society.

Academic Degrees

1947	Ingenieur diplome, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
1948	California Institute of Technology, Master of Science
1949	California Institute of Technology, Professional Engineer in Aeronautics,
1952	Faculte des Sciences de Paris, Docteur d’Etat es Sciences Mathematiques

Professional Career

1949-57	Staff member (Attache, then Charge, then Maitre de Recherches), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
1957-58	Maitre de Conferences de Mathematiques Appliquees, Universite, Lille, France Maitre de Conferences d’Analyse Mathematique, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
1958-74	Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY.
1974-93	IBM Fellow, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
1987-99	Abraham Robinson Adjunct Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1993-present	IBM Fellow Emeritus, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
1999-present	Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics Department: Yale University

Title

• Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics Department, Yale University IBM Fellow Emeritus, TJ Watson Research Center, International Business Machines Corporation

Major Books and Papers

• B.B.Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature, W.H.Freeman and Company (NewYork),1982.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk, New York: Springer, 1997.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, Multifractals and 1/f Noise : Wild Self-Affinity in Physics, New York: Springer, 1999.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, Gaussian Self-Affinity & Fractals: Globality, the Earth, 1/f, & R/S, New York: Springer, 2002.
• M. L. Frame & B.B.Mandelbrot, Fractals, Graphics and Mathematical Education, Washington DC: Mathematical Association of America & Cambridge UK: The University Press, 2002.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, The variation of certain speculative prices. The Journal of Business of the University of Chicago: 36, 394-419. 1963.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, Random walks, fire damage amount, and other Paretian riskphenomena, Operations Research 12, 582-585, 1964.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, How long is the coast of Britain? Statistical self-similarity and fractional dimension, Science 155, 636-638, 1967.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, Some noises with 1/f spectrum, a bridge between direct current and white noise, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 13, 289-298, 1967.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, A population birth and mutation process, I: Explicit distribution for the number of mutants in an old culture of bacteria, Journal of Applied Probability 11, 437-444, 1974.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, Intermittent turbulence in self-similar cascades; divergence of high moments and dimension of carrier, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 62, 331-358, 1974.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, Stochastic models for the Earth’s relief, the shape and the fractal dimension of the coastlines, and the number-area rule of islands, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 72, 3825-3828, 1975.
• B.B.Mandelbrot, Fractal aspects of the iteration of z →λ z (1-z) for complex λ and z, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 357, 249-259, 1980.