The Hans Sigrist Prize is awarded by the Hans Sigrist Foundation, at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
The Foundation's benefactor Hans Sigrist died on December 30, 1982.
Every year, the Foundation asks faculty members at the University of Bern to propose a prize field.
The Foundation board chooses a field from those proposals and selects a chair for the prize search committee.
Bartholomaus Wissmath N Later won a Nobel Prize