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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