International Bilateral Awards

Recipients of the Holweck medal and prize

2008
Professor Denis Weaire
Trinity College, Dublin
For his creative contributions to condensed matter research which range over the electronic properties of metals and semiconductors, the structure of amorphous solids and the physics of foams. Full citation

2007
Jean-Pierre Hulin
FAST Laboratory, associated to CNRS and to the Pierre et Marie Curie and Paris-Sud Universities
For his contribution to the physics of mixing and flows in porous materials.

2006
Julia Higgins
Imperial College, London
For her many and impressive contributions to the field of polymer science, in particular for the application of scattering techniques using both neutrons and light.

2005
Philippe Monod
Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle de la Ville de Paris
For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of highly correlated electrons in condensed matter.

2004
Adrian F G Wyatt

2003
Catherine Brechignac

2002
John Bernard Pethica

2001
Pierre Coullet

2000
Frank Henry Read

1999
Oriol Bohigas

1998
William Gelletly

1997
Jean-Pierre Briand

1996
John Wickham Steeds

1995
Pierre Léna

1994
Lawrence John Challis

1993
David Ruelle

1992
Donald Hill Perkins

1991
Alain Aspect

1990
Roger Cowley

1989
Eric Varoquaux

1988
Peter Hirsch

1986
Gareth Gwyn Roberts

1985
Denis Jérome

1984
Brebis Bleaney

1983
Gerard Toulouse

1982
Raymond Hide

1981
René Turlay

1980
David James Thouless

1979
André Blandin

1978
William Frank Vinen

1977
Maurice Goldman

1976
Harry Elliot

1975
Evry Schatzman

1974
Philippe Nozières and Antony Hewish

1973
Brian David Josephson

1972
Lionel Solomon

1971
Dennis Gabor

1970
Pierre Connes

1969
Alan Howard Cottrell

1968
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

1967
Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn

1966
Raymond Castaing

1965
Martin Ryle

1964
Jacques Friedel

1963
Frederick Charles Frank

1962
Jean-François Denisse

1961
Alfred Brian Pippard

1960
Jean Brossel

1959
Robert Hanbury Brown

1958
Anatole Abragam

1957
Denys Haigh Wilkinson

1956
Jean Paul Mathieu

1955
Nicholas Kurti

1954
Alfred Kastler

1953
John Ashworth Ratcliffe

1952
Louis Néel

1951
Thomas Ralph Merton

1950
Pierre Jacquinot

1949
Leslie Fleetwood Bates

1948
Yves Rocard

1947
Edward Neville da Costa Andrade

1946
Charles Sadron

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