Editing Henri Poincaré (section)

==Honours==
'''Awards'''
*Oscar II, King of Sweden's mathematical competition (1887)
*Foreign member of the [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1897)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00002358 |title=Jules Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=4 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905152142/http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00002358 |archive-date=5 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[American Philosophical Society]] (1899)
*[[Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society]] of London (1900)
*Commander of the [[Legion of Honour]] (1903)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ginoux |first1=J. M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xka7CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 |title=Henri Poincaré: A Biography Through the Daily Papers |last2=Gerini |first2=C. |publisher=[[World Scientific]] |year=2013 |isbn=978-981-4556-61-3 |pages=59 |doi=10.1142/8956}}</ref>
*[[Bolyai Prize]] (1905)
*[[Matteucci Medal]] (1905)
*[[French Academy of Sciences]] (1906)
*[[Académie française]] (1909)
*[[Bruce Medal]] (1911)

'''Named after him'''
*[[Institut Henri Poincaré]] (mathematics and theoretical physics centre)
*Maison Poincaré, a mathematics museum in the 5th arrondissement of Paris<ref>{{cite news |last1=Khadilkar |first1=Dhananjay |title=From The Lab: The museum that shows maths in action |url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/science-and-technology/20231024-from-the-lab-the-museum-that-shows-maths-in-action |access-date=15 January 2025 |publisher=Radio France International |date=24 October 2024}}</ref>
*[[Poincaré Prize]] (Mathematical Physics International Prize)
*[[Annales Henri Poincaré]] (Scientific Journal)
*Poincaré Seminar (nicknamed "[[Bourbaphy]]")
*The crater [[Poincaré (crater)|Poincaré]] on the Moon
*[[Asteroid]] [[2021 Poincaré]]
*[[List of things named after Henri Poincaré]]

Henri Poincaré did not receive the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]], but he had influential advocates like [[Henri Becquerel]] or committee member [[Gösta Mittag-Leffler]].<ref name="gray-biography">{{cite book|last1=Gray|first1=Jeremy|title=Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography|date=2013|publisher=Princeton University Press|pages=194–196|chapter=The Campaign for Poincaré}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Crawford|first1=Elizabeth|title=The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution: The Science Prizes, 1901–1915|year= 1987|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=141–142}}</ref> The nomination archive reveals that Poincaré received a total of 51 nominations between 1904 and 1912, the year of his death.<ref name="nomination database">{{cite web|title=Nomination database|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/list.php|website=Nobelprize.org|publisher=Nobel Media AB|access-date=24 September 2015}}</ref> Of the 58 nominations for the 1910 Nobel Prize, 34 named Poincaré.<ref name="nomination database"/> Nominators included Nobel laureates [[Hendrik Lorentz]] and [[Pieter Zeeman]] (both of 1902), [[Marie Curie]] (of 1903), [[Albert Michelson]] (of 1907), [[Gabriel Lippmann]] (of 1908) and [[Guglielmo Marconi]] (of 1909).<ref name="nomination database"/>

The fact that renowned [[Theoretical physics|theoretical physicists]] like Poincaré, [[Ludwig Boltzmann|Boltzmann]] or [[Josiah Willard Gibbs|Gibbs]] were not awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] is seen as evidence that the Nobel committee had more regard for experimentation than theory.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Crawford |first1= Elizabeth |title=Nobel: Always the Winners, Never the Losers|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|date=13 November 1998|volume=282|issue=5392|pages=1256–1257|doi=10.1126/science.282.5392.1256|bibcode = 1998Sci...282.1256C |s2cid= 153619456 }}{{dead link|date=July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Nastasi|first1=Pietro|title=A Nobel Prize for Poincaré? |journal=Lettera Matematica|date=16 May 2013|volume=1|issue=1–2|pages=79–82|doi=10.1007/s40329-013-0005-1 |doi-access=free}}</ref> In Poincaré's case, several of those who nominated him pointed out that the greatest problem was to name a specific discovery, invention, or technique.<ref name="gray-biography"/>