Xavier Leroy will receive the Royal Society's 2016 Milner Award
Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog 2015-10-13
Summary:
The Royal Society will award Xavier Leroy the Milner Award 2016
... in recognition of his research on the OCaml functional programming language and on the formal verification of compilers.
Xavier's replied:
It is very moving to see how far we have come, from Milner's great ideas of the 1970s to tools as powerful and as widely used as OCaml and Coq.