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Simon Memorial Prize

The Simon Memorial Prize is an award that honors 'distinguished work in experimental or theoretical low temperature physics'.[1][2] The prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics and is presented at the International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, which takes place every three years. The prize is named after Francis Simon, who contributed eminently to the field of low-temperature physics.[3][4] The first prize was awarded in 1959 to Heinz London.[5][6]

Not to be confused with the Robert Simon Memorial Prize awarded for dissertations from the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics of Columbia University.[7]

Winners edit

The following have won this prize:[8]

Recipients of the Simon Memorial Prize
Year Recipient Citation
2020 Jukka Pekola [fi] For fundamental achievements in quantum thermodynamics, metrology and cryogenics based on nanoscale electronic devices.[1]
2017 Louis Taillefer [fr] For pioneering transport measurements at high magnetic fields and low temperature in heavy-fermion and cuprate superconductors.[1]
2014 Peter Wölfle [de] For fundamental contributions to the theory of quantum transport processes in superfluid 3He, heavy fermion superconductors and disordered metals.[1]
2011 Sergey V. Iordanski "For their calculations and predictions of the fundamental forces acting on quantised vortices in superfluids, superconductors and other ordered systems: The Iordanskii force and the Kopnin force"[9]
Nikolai B. Kopnin
2008 Yasunobu Nakamura "For their pioneering demonstration of quantum coherent behaviour in a macroscopic object and for their subsequent explorations of quantum coherent physics in a series of novel superconducting devices."
Jaw-Shen Tsai
2004 Grigory Volovik "for his pioneering research on the effects of symmetry in superfluids and superconductors and the extension of these ideas to quantum field theory, cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics."[10]
2001 Giorgio Frossati [de]
1998 George R. Pickett In recognition of their outstanding contributions to the field of low temperature physics.[11]
Anthony M. Guénault
1995 Alexander F. Andreev
1992 Olivier Avenel
Eric Varoquaux
1989 Richard A. Webb
1986 Yuri V. Sharvin [ru] in recognition of his outstanding experimental contributions to our understanding of the low temperature properties of metals.[12]
1983 David Olaf Edwards for his outstanding research on liquid and solid helium and their surfaces.[13]
1981 Anthony James Leggett for his outstanding contribution to the theory of superfluid He3.[14]
1976 David M. Lee for their discovery in 1972 of the new low temperature phases of liquid helium-3.[15][16]
Douglas D. Osheroff
Robert C. Richardson
1973 Peter Kapitza for distinguished work in the field of low-temperature physics.[17][18]
1970 Walther Meissner for his work in many areas of low temperature physics and technology and, in particular, in the field of superconductivity.[19]
1968 Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn in recognition of distinguished work in superconductivity and the properties of liquid helium.[20]
1965 John Charles Wheatley in recognition of his outstanding work on the properties of liquid helium-3 at very low temperatures.[21]
1963 Henry Edgar Hall for their work on liquid helium II[22]
William Frank Vinen
1961 Ilya Lifshitz for his many contributions to the understanding of the structure of the Fermi surface in metals and for his work on liquid helium.[23]
1959 Heinz London

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Simon Memorial Prize". IOP. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  2. ^ "Simon Memorial Prize: Call for Nominations". Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 196 (1): 3. July 1, 2019. Bibcode:2019JLTP..196....3.. doi:10.1007/s10909-019-02206-6.
  3. ^ "Simon Memorial Prize: Call for Nominations". Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 172 (1–2): 3–4. July 24, 2013. Bibcode:2013JLTP..172....3.. doi:10.1007/s10909-013-0878-6. S2CID 189841403.
  4. ^ "Simon Memorial Prize". Nature. 182 (4650): 1644–1644. 1958-12-13. doi:10.1038/1821644a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  5. ^ "Obituaries: Dr Heinz London". Nature. 227 (5264): 1278–1278. 1970-09-19. doi:10.1038/2271278a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  6. ^ Webster, Valerie J.; Gale Research Inc (2004). Awards, honors & prizes. Internet Archive. Gale Group. p. 526. ISBN 978-0-7876-6656-9.
  7. ^ "Robert Simon Memorial Prize". sites.apam.columbia.edu.
  8. ^ "Simon Memorial Prize: past winners". IOP. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  9. ^ "The 2011 Simon Memorial Prize". Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 163 (3–4): 90–91. May 24, 2011. Bibcode:2011JLTP..163...90.. doi:10.1007/s10909-011-0357-x. S2CID 189841585.
  10. ^ "LT24". www.phys.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  11. ^ IOP History of Physics Newsletter, December 2015. p.48
  12. ^ Springford, M (1986-10-01). "Low Temperature Metal Physics". Physics Bulletin. 37 (10): 425–425. doi:10.1088/0031-9112/37/10/019. ISSN 0031-9112.
  13. ^ "1983 Simon Prize to David O. Edwards". Physics Today. 37 (4): 94–95. 1984-04-01. doi:10.1063/1.2916211. ISSN 0031-9228.
  14. ^ "In Brief". Physics Today. 34 (7): 74–74. 1981-07-01. doi:10.1063/1.2914669. ISSN 0031-9228.
  15. ^ "Cryogenic news". Cryogenics. 16 (6): 379–382. 1976-06-01. doi:10.1016/0011-2275(76)90223-X. ISSN 0011-2275.
  16. ^ "Simon memorial prize". Vacuum. 26 (6): 258. 1976-01-01. doi:10.1016/S0042-207X(76)80536-2. ISSN 0042-207X.
  17. ^ "Cryogenic news". Cryogenics. 13 (10): 625–627. 1973-10-01. doi:10.1016/0011-2275(73)90125-2. ISSN 0011-2275.
  18. ^ "IOP presents awards to four physicists". pubs.aip.org. doi:10.1063/1.3128241. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  19. ^ "Conferences and Group activities". Vacuum. 20 (4): 156–157. 1970-04-01. doi:10.1016/S0042-207X(70)80122-1. ISSN 0042-207X.
  20. ^ "Simon Memorial Prize Goes To Kurt A. G. Mendelssohn". Physics Today. 21 (2): 105–105. 1968-02-01. doi:10.1063/1.3034749. ISSN 0031-9228.
  21. ^ "Simon Memorial Prize". Nature. 206 (4988): 989–989. 1965-06-05. doi:10.1038/206989a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  22. ^ "Simon Memorial Prize". Nature. 199 (4899): 1139–1139. 1963-09-21. doi:10.1038/1991139e0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  23. ^ "Editorial note". Cryogenics. 2 (1): 58. 1961-09-01. doi:10.1016/0011-2275(61)90017-0. ISSN 0011-2275.

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