IOP Groups

The Simon Prize

History
The Low Temperature Group of The Physical Society, which owed so much to Sir Francis Simon, established this award in 1958 in his memory. The award is made by the committee of the IOP Low Temperature Group who are also the trustees.

Terms
The award shall be made approximately every three years for distinguished work in experimental or theoretical low temperature physics. The prize is £300 and is accompanied by a certificate and a bronze plaque.

Previous recipients

2008 - Yasunobu Nakamura and Jaw-Shen Tsai
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.

2004 - Grigory Volovik

2001 - Giorgio Frossati

1998 - George R Pickett and Anthony M Guénault

1995 - Alexander F Andreev

1992 - Olivier Avenel and Eric Varoquaux

1989 - Richard A Webb

1986 - Yuri V Sharvin

1983 - David Olaf Edwards

1981 - Anthony James Leggett

1976 - David Morris Lee and Douglas Dean Osheroff and Robert Coleman Richardson

1973 - Peter Kapitza

1970 - Walther Meissner

1968 - Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn

1965 - John Charles Wheatley

1963 - Henry Edgar Hall and William Frank Vinen

1961 - I M Lifschitz

1959 - H London

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