Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize recipients
Recipients of the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics and the French Physical Society.
2023
Professor Amaury Triaud
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham
For the discovery and orbital characterisation of multiple exoplanets that empirically explore the dominant physical processes behind planet formation and improve the prospects of detecting biology in the cosmos.
2022
Philippe Claudin and Bruno Andreotti
Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle de Paris & Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
For their outstanding research in the physics of geomorphology and their physical approach based on the simplification of the system which has provide new explanations of the formation of the patterns observed in nature (sediment transport, the variety of dune shapes on earth and other planets or asteroids and ice patterns).
2021
Professor Guy Le Lay
Aix-Marseille Université
For pioneering the realisation and study of the emerging properties of new two-dimensional allotropes of silicon, germanium, tin and lead, and coined artificial Xenes.
2020
Professor Charles S Adams
Durham University
For developing the field of Rydberg Quantum Optics and pioneering experiments on the interaction of light with atomic systems exhibiting strong interparticle interactions.
2019
Dr Xavier Garbet
IRFM – CEA
For his contributions to the understanding of turbulence, transport and instabilities in fusion plasmas.
2018
Dr Marina Galand
Imperial College London
For her outstanding contribution to the understanding and assessment of the response of planetary atmospheres to energy sources in the Solar System and beyond.
2017
Professor Victor Malka
LOA (ENSTA/CNRS/Ecole polytechnique) & Weizmann Insitute of Science
For his world-recognised expertise in the area of plasma physics and his multidisciplinary collaborative approach.
2016
Professor Zoran Hadzibabic
University of Cambridge
For his outstanding experimental achievements in the control of ultracold quantum degenerate gases.
2015
Professor Isabelle Ledoux-Rak
École normale supérieure de Cachan
For her pioneering contributions to our understanding of the nonlinear optical properties of organic materials.
2014
Professor Ramin Golestanian
University of Oxford
For his pioneering contributions to the field of active soft matter, particularly microscopic swimmers and active colloids.
2013
Alexander Buzdin
University of Bordeaux
For his pioneering theoretical studies of superconductor-ferromagnet multilayer systems.
2012
Helen Gleeson
University of Manchester
For her contributions to understanding the structures and electro-optical properties of liquid crystals.
2011
Joël Cibert
CNRS - Institut Néel
For his pioneering research on magnetic semiconductors and spintronics.
2010
Steven T Bramwell
University College London
For pioneering new concepts in the experimental and theoretical study of spin systems.
2009
Christian Colliex
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris Sud
For his pioneering use of the electron microscope to further our understanding of the electronic structure of nanomaterials.
2008
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.
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
Professor John Bernard Pethica
University of Oxford
Distinguished for his contributions to the field of nanometre and atomic scale mechanics.
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