The Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics (ex-NAS Award in Mathematics until 2012) is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for excellence of research in the mathematical sciences published within the past ten years."
The original prize was for $5,000 and was awarded every four years; this was suspended after 2012.
[1] In 2018, the prized was renamed after the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani; the prize money was increased to $20,000 and was to be awarded every two years.
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