Simon Memorial Prize

{{Short description|Award in low temperature physics}}

The Simon Memorial Prize is an award that honors 'distinguished work in experimental or theoretical low temperature physics'.{{cite web|url=https://www.iop.org/physics-community/special-interest-groups/low-temperature-group/simon-memorial-prize |title=Simon Memorial Prize |publisher=IOP |accessdate=2023-10-12}}{{Cite journal|title=Simon Memorial Prize: Call for Nominations|date=July 1, 2019|journal=Journal of Low Temperature Physics|volume=196|issue=1|pages=3|doi=10.1007/s10909-019-02206-6|bibcode = 2019JLTP..196....3.|doi-access=free}} The prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics and is presented at the International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, which takes place every three years. The prize is named after Francis Simon, who contributed eminently to the field of low-temperature physics.{{Cite journal|title=Simon Memorial Prize: Call for Nominations|date=July 24, 2013|journal=Journal of Low Temperature Physics|volume=172|issue=1–2|pages=3–4|doi=10.1007/s10909-013-0878-6|bibcode = 2013JLTP..172....3.|s2cid=189841403 }}{{Cite journal |date=1958-12-13 |title=Simon Memorial Prize |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/1821644a0 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=182 |issue=4650 |pages=1644–1644 |doi=10.1038/1821644a0 |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free }} The first prize was awarded in 1959 to Heinz London.{{Cite journal |date=1970-09-19 |title=Obituaries: Dr Heinz London |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/2271278a0 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=227 |issue=5264 |pages=1278–1278 |doi=10.1038/2271278a0 |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free }}{{Cite book |last=Webster |first=Valerie J. |url=http://archive.org/details/awardshonorspriz02thom |title=Awards, honors & prizes |last2=Gale Research Inc |date=2004 |publisher=Gale Group |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-7876-6656-9 |pages=526}}

Not to be confused with the Robert Simon Memorial Prize awarded for dissertations from the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics of Columbia University.{{Cite web|url=http://sites.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/Simon_Prize.html|title=Robert Simon Memorial Prize|website=sites.apam.columbia.edu}}

Winners

The following have won this prize:{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/lt/prize/page_44359.html |title=Simon Memorial Prize: past winners |publisher=IOP |accessdate=2016-12-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100420/http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/lt/prize/page_44359.html | archive-date=2016-03-04}}

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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 | 2011Sergey 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 | 2008Yasunobu 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
2004Grigory 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 | 1998George 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
1995Alexander F. Andreev

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rowspan=2 | 1992Olivier Avenel

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Eric Varoquaux
1989Richard 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 }}

1983David 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 }}

1981Anthony 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 | 1976David 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
1973Peter 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}}

1970Walther 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 }}

1968Kurt 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 }}

1965John 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 | 1963Henry 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
1961Ilya 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 }}

1959Heinz London

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