EPS Europhysics Prize

Laureates

• 2018: Lucio Braicovich and Giacomo Claudio Ghiringhelli - The development and scientific exploration of high-resolution Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering.
• 2016:, Alexei N. Bogdanov, Christian Pfleiderer,, Ashvin Vishwanath - Theoretical prediction, experimental discovery and theoretical analysis of a magnetic skyrmion phase in MnSi, a new state of matter.
• 2014: Harold Y. Hwang, Jochen Mannhart and - for the discovery and investigation of electron liquids at oxide interfaces
• 2012: Steven T. Bramwell, Claudio Castelnovo, Santiago Grigera, Roderich Moessner, Shivaji Sondhi and Alan Tennant - Prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles in spin ice
• 2010: Hartmut Buhmann, Charles Kane, Eugene J. Mele, Laurens W. Molenkamp and Shoucheng Zhang - Theoretical prediction and the experimental observation of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators
• 2008: Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov - Discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties
• 2006: Antoine Georges, Gabriel Kotliar,, Dieter Vollhardt - Development and application of the dynamical mean field theory
• 2005: David Awschalom, Tomasz Dietl, Hideo Ohno - For their work on ferromagnetic semiconductors and spintronics
• 2004: Michel Devoret, Daniel Estève, Johan Mooij, Yasunobu Nakamura - Realisation and demonstration of the quantum bit concept based on superconducting circuits
• 2003: Heino Finkelmann, Mark Warner - Discovery of a new class of materials called liquid crystal elastomers
• 2002:, Jonathan Friedman, Dante Gatteschi, Roberta Sessoli, - Development of the field of quantum dynamics of nanomagnets, including the discovery of quantum tunnelling and interference in dynamics of magnetization
• 2001: Sumio Iijima, Cees Dekker, Thomas W. Ebbesen, Paul L. McEuen - Discovery of multi- and single-walled carbon nanotubes and pioneering studies of their fundamental mechanical and electronic properties
• 2000: Paolo Carra, Gerrit van der Laan, Gisela Schütz - Pioneering work in establishing the field of magnetic x-ray dichroism
• 1999:, Michael Reznikov - For developing novel techniques for noise measurements in solids leading to experimental observation of carriers with a fractional charge
• 1998: Thomas Maurice Rice - Original contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems
• 1997: Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg, Stuart Parkin - Discovery and contribution to the understanding of the giant magneto-resistance effect in transition-metal multilayers and demonstrations of its potential for technological applications
• 1996: Richard Friend - Pioneering work on semiconducting organic polymer materials and demonstration of an organic light emitting diode
• 1995: Yakir Aharonov, Michael V. Berry - Introduction of fundamental concepts in physics that have profound impact on condensed matter science
• 1994: Donald R. Huffman, Wolfgang Krätschmer, Harry Kroto, Richard Smalley - New molecular forms of carbon and their production in the solid state
• 1993: Boris L. Altshuler, Arkadii G. Aronov, David E. Khmelnitskii, Anatoly I. Larkin, Boris Spivak - Theoretical work on coherent phenomena in disordered conductors
• 1992: Gerhard Ertl, Harald Ibach, J. Peter Toennies - Pioneering studies of surface structures, dynamics and reactions through the development of novel experimental methods
• 1991: Klaus Bechgaard, Denis Jérome - Synthesis of a new class of organic metals and the discovery of their superconductivity and novel magnetic properties
• 1990: Roberto Car, Michele Parrinello - A novel and powerful method for the ab-initio calculation of molecular dynamics
• 1989: Frank Steglich, Hans-Rudolf Ott, Gilbert G. Lonzarich - Pioneering investigations of heavy-fermion metals
• 1988: J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller - Discovery of high-temperature superconductivity
• 1987: Igor K. Yanson - Point-contact spectroscopy in metals
• 1986: - Neutron spin echo spectroscopy
• 1985:, Michael Pepper - The experimental study of low dimensional physics
• 1984: Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer - Scanning tunnelling microscope
• 1983: Isaac F. Silvera - Atomic and solid hydrogen
• 1982: Klaus von Klitzing - Experimental demonstration of the quantized Hall resistance
• 1981: No award
• 1980: O. Krogh Andersen, Andries Rinse Miedema - Original methods for the calculation of the electronic properties of materials
• 1979: Eric A. Ash, Jeffrey H. Collins, Yuri V. Gulaev, K.A. Ingebrigtsen, E.G.S. Paige - The physical principles of surface acoustic wave devices
• 1978: Zhores Alferov - Heterojunctions
• 1977: Walter Eric Spear - Amorphous silicon devices
• 1976: Wolfgang Helfrich - Contributions to the physics of liquid crystals
• 1975: Victor S. Bagaev, Leonid V. Keldysh, Jaroslav E. Pokrovsky, Michel Voos - The condensation of excitons