The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem , is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series.

Past winners

• 1968 Nicholas Varopoulos
• 1969 Richard Hunt
• 1970 Yves Meyer
• 1971 Charles Fefferman
• 1972 Thomas Körner
• 1973 E. M. Nikishin
• 1974 Hugh Montgomery
• 1975 William Beckner
• 1976 Michael R. Herman
• 1977 S. V. Bockarev
• 1978 Björn E. Dahlberg
• 1979 Gilles Pisier
• 1980 Stylianos Pichorides
• 1981 Peter Jones
• 1982 Alexei B. Aleksandrov
• 1983 Jean Bourgain
• 1984 Carlos Kenig
• 1985 Thomas Wolff
• 1986 Nikolai Makarov
• 1987 Guy David & Jean Lin Journe
• 1988 Alexander Volberg & Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
• 1989 no prize
• 1990 Sergei Konyagin
• 1991 Curtis T. McMullen
• 1992 Mitsuo Shishikura
• 1993 Sergei Treil
• 1994 Kari Astala
• 1995 Hakan Eliasson
• 1996 Michael Lacey & Christoph Thiele
• 1997 no prize
• 1998 Trevor Wooley
• 1999 Fedor Nazarov
• 2000 Terence Tao
• 2001 Oded Schramm & Stanislav Smirnov
• 2002 Xavier Tolsa
• 2003 Elon Lindenstrauss & Kannan Soundararajan