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|+ Recipients of the Simon Memorial Prize
! Year !! Recipient !! Citation |
2025
|Ady Stern
|For original and influential theoretical work on the quantum Hall effect, quantum statistics of emerging quasi-particles, topological order and decoherence in condensed matter systems at low temperatures. |
2020 | {{ill|Jukka Pekola|fi}}
| For fundamental achievements in quantum thermodynamics, metrology and cryogenics based on nanoscale electronic devices. |
2017 | {{ill|Louis Taillefer|fr}}
| For pioneering transport measurements at high magnetic fields and low temperature in heavy-fermion and cuprate superconductors. |
2014 | {{ill|Peter Wölfle|de}}
| For fundamental contributions to the theory of quantum transport processes in superfluid 3He, heavy fermion superconductors and disordered metals. |
rowspan=2 | 2011 | Sergey V. Iordanski
| rowspan=2 | "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"[{{Cite journal|title=The 2011 Simon Memorial Prize|date=May 24, 2011|journal=Journal of Low Temperature Physics|volume=163|issue=3–4|pages=90–91|doi=10.1007/s10909-011-0357-x|bibcode = 2011JLTP..163...90.|s2cid=189841585 }}] |
Nikolai B. Kopnin |
rowspan=2 | 2008 | Yasunobu Nakamura
| rowspan=2 | "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."[{{Cite web |title=LT24 |url=https://www.phys.ufl.edu/~lt24/prizes.html |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=www.phys.ufl.edu}}] |
2001 | {{ill|Giorgio Frossati|de}}
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rowspan=2 | 1998 | George R. Pickett
| rowspan=2 | In recognition of their outstanding contributions to the field of low temperature physics.[[https://www.iop.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/HP-issue33-Dec2015.pdf IOP History of Physics Newsletter, December 2015]. p.48] |
Anthony M. Guénault |
1995 | Alexander F. Andreev
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rowspan=2 | 1992 | Olivier Avenel
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Eric Varoquaux |
1989 | Richard A. Webb
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1986 | {{ill|Шарвин, Юрий Васильевич|ru|lt=Yuri V. Sharvin}}
| in recognition of his outstanding experimental contributions to our understanding of the low temperature properties of metals.[{{Cite journal |last=Springford |first=M |date=1986-10-01 |title=Low Temperature Metal Physics |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9112/37/10/019 |journal=Physics Bulletin |volume=37 |issue=10 |pages=425–425 |doi=10.1088/0031-9112/37/10/019 |issn=0031-9112|url-access=subscription }}] |
1983 | David Olaf Edwards
| for his outstanding research on liquid and solid helium and their surfaces.[{{Cite journal |date=1984-04-01 |title=1983 Simon Prize to David O. Edwards |url=https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2916211 |journal=Physics Today |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=94–95 |doi=10.1063/1.2916211 |issn=0031-9228|url-access=subscription }}] |
1981 | Anthony James Leggett
| for his outstanding contribution to the theory of superfluid He3.[{{Cite journal |date=1981-07-01 |title=In Brief |url=https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914669 |journal=Physics Today |volume=34 |issue=7 |pages=74–74 |doi=10.1063/1.2914669 |issn=0031-9228|url-access=subscription }}] |
rowspan=3 | 1976 | David M. Lee
| rowspan=3 | for their discovery in 1972 of the new low temperature phases of liquid helium-3.[{{Cite journal |date=1976-06-01 |title=Cryogenic news |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/001122757690223X |journal=Cryogenics |volume=16 |issue=6 |pages=379–382 |doi=10.1016/0011-2275(76)90223-X |issn=0011-2275|url-access=subscription }}][{{Cite journal |date=1976-01-01 |title=Simon memorial prize |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042207X76805362 |journal=Vacuum |volume=26 |issue=6 |pages=258 |doi=10.1016/S0042-207X(76)80536-2 |issn=0042-207X|url-access=subscription }}] |
Douglas D. Osheroff |
Robert C. Richardson |
1973 | Peter Kapitza
| for distinguished work in the field of low-temperature physics.[{{Cite journal |date=1973-10-01 |title=Cryogenic news |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0011227573901252 |journal=Cryogenics |volume=13 |issue=10 |pages=625–627 |doi=10.1016/0011-2275(73)90125-2 |issn=0011-2275|url-access=subscription }}][{{Cite web |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/26/9/67/429296/IOP-presents-awards-to-four-physicists |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=pubs.aip.org |doi=10.1063/1.3128241|title=IOP presents awards to four physicists}}] |
1970 | Walther Meissner
| for his work in many areas of low temperature physics and technology and, in particular, in the field of superconductivity.[{{Cite journal |date=1970-04-01 |title=Conferences and Group activities |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042207X70801221 |journal=Vacuum |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=156–157 |doi=10.1016/S0042-207X(70)80122-1 |issn=0042-207X|url-access=subscription }}] |
1968 | Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn
| in recognition of distinguished work in superconductivity and the properties of liquid helium.[{{Cite journal |date=1968-02-01 |title=Simon Memorial Prize Goes To Kurt A. G. Mendelssohn |url=https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3034749 |journal=Physics Today |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=105–105 |doi=10.1063/1.3034749 |issn=0031-9228|url-access=subscription }}] |
1965 | John Charles Wheatley
| in recognition of his outstanding work on the properties of liquid helium-3 at very low temperatures.[{{Cite journal |date=1965-06-05 |title=Simon Memorial Prize |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/206989a0 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=206 |issue=4988 |pages=989–989 |doi=10.1038/206989a0 |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free }}] |
rowspan=2 | 1963 | Henry Edgar Hall
| rowspan=2 | for their work on liquid helium II[{{Cite journal |date=1963-09-21 |title=Simon Memorial Prize |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/1991139e0 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=199 |issue=4899 |pages=1139–1139 |doi=10.1038/1991139e0 |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free }}] |
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.[{{Cite journal |date=1961-09-01 |title=Editorial note |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0011227561900170 |journal=Cryogenics |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=58 |doi=10.1016/0011-2275(61)90017-0 |issn=0011-2275|url-access=subscription }}] |
1959 | Heinz London
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