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EPS Europhysics Prize
EPS Europhysics Prize
Division: Condensed Matter
Sponsor:
Period: Every year
For:
a recent work by one or more individuals in the area of physics of condensed matter, specifically work leading to advances in the fields of electronic, electrical and materials engineering which, in the opinion of the Society's selection committee, represents scientific excellence.
Award: Cash prize and diploma
Recent Europhysics Prize winners
2006
Antoine Georges (Ecole Polytechnique and CNRS, France)
Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers University, USA)
Walter Metzner (Max Planck Institute-Stuttgart, Germany)
Dieter Vollhardt (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Short citation :
For the development and application of the dynamical mean field theory.
Previous prize recipients
| 2005 | David Awschalom Tomasz Dietl Hideo Ohno For their work on ferromagnetic semiconductors and spintronics. |
| 2004 Prague |
Michel Devoret Daniel Esteve Johan Mooij Yasunobu Nakamura For the realisation and demonstration of the quantum bit concept based on superconducting circuits. |
| 2003 Prague |
Heino Finkelmann |
| 2002 Budapest |
Bernard Barbara Jonathan Friedman Dante Gatteschi Roberta Sessoli Wolfgang Wernsdorfer For developing the field of quantum dynamics of nanomagnets, including the discovery of quantum tunnelling and interference in dynamics of magnetization. |
| 2001 Brighton |
Sumio Iijima Cees Dekker Thomas W. Ebbesen Paul L. McEuen For the discovery of multi and single walled carbon nanotubes and pioneering studies of their fundamental mechanical and electronic properties. |
| 2000 | P. Carra, G. van der Laan, G. Schütz For pioneering work in establishing the field of magnetic x-ray dichroism |
| 1999 | C. Glallti, M. Reznikov For developing novel techniques for noise measurements in solids leading to experimental observation of carriers with a fractional charge. |
| 1998 | M. T. Rice For Original Contributions to the Theory of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems |
| 1997 | A. Fert, P. Gruenberg, S. S. P. Parkin For Discovery and Contribution to the Understanding of the Giant Magneto- resistance Effect in Transition-Metal Multilayers and for Demonstrations of its Potential for Technological Applications |
| 1996 | R.H. Friend Pioneering work on Semiconducting Organic Polymer Materials and Demonstrating of an Organic Light Emitting Diode |
| 1995 | Yakir Aharonov, Michael V. Berry For Introduction Fundamental Concepts in Physics that have profound Impact on Condensed Matter Science |
| 1994 | D.R. Huffman, W. Krätschmer, H.W. Kroto, R.E. Smalley New Molecular Forms of Carbon and their Production in the Solid State |
| 1993 | B.L. Altshuler, A.G. Aronov, D.E. Khmelnitskii, A.I. Larkin, B. Spivak Theoretical Work on Coherent Phenomena in disordered Conductors |
| 1992 | G. Ertl, H. Ibach, J. Peter Toennies Pioneering Studies of Surface Structures, Dynamics and Reactions through the Development of Novel Experimental Methods |
| 1991 | K. Bechgaard, D. Jérome For the Synthesis of a New Class of Organic Metals and the Discovery of their Superconductivity and Novel Magnetic Properties |
| 1990 | R. Car, M. Parrinello A Novel and Powerful Method for the ab-initio Calculation of Molecular Dynamics |
| 1989 | F. Steglich, H.-R. Ott, G.G. Lonzarich Pioneering Investigations of Heavy-Fermion Metals |
| 1988 | J.G. Bednorz, K.A. Müller Discovery of High-Temperature Superconductivity |
| 1987 | I.K. Yanson Point-Contact Spectroscopy in Metals |
| 1986 | F. Mezei Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy |
| 1985 | J. Als-Nielsen, M. Pepper The Experimental Study of Low Dimensional Physics |
| 1984 | G.K. Binnig, H. Rohrer For building the Scanning Tunnelling Microscope |
| 1983 | A.F. Silvera Atomic and Solid Hydrogen |
| 1982 | K. von Klitzing Experimental Demonstration of the Quantized Hall Resistance |
| 1980 | O.K. Andersen, A.R. Miedema Original Methods for the Calculation of the Electronic Properties of Materials |
| 1979 | E.A. Ash, J.H. Collins, Y.V. Gulaev, K.A. Ingebrigtsen, E.G.S. Paige The Physical Principles of Surface Acoustic Wave Devices |
| 1978 | Z.I. Alferov Heterojunctions |
| 1977 | W.E. Spear Amorphous Silicon Devices |
| 1976 | W. Helfrich Contributions to the Physics of Liquid Crystals |
| 1975 | V.S. Bagaev, L.V. Keldysh, J.E. Pokrovsky, M. Voos The Condensation of Excitons |