Bernd T. Matthias Prize

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The Bernd T. Matthias Prize is a prize for materials research on superconductors. It was named after Bernd T. Matthias , who found numerous superconducting substances, and was donated in 1989 by friends of Matthias and ATT Bell Labs . Since 2000, it has been awarded by the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston , whose founding director Paul CW Chu was a student of Matthias.

The prize is worth $ 6,000 and is awarded every three years. It will be presented at the International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity (M2S), where the award winners will also give a lecture.

Award winners

Each with a laudation.

  • 1989 Theodore H. Geballe
  • 1991 Hiroshi Maeda , Yoshinori Tokura for the discovery of superconductors which led to the elucidation of essential structures of high temperature superconductors . At the end of 1987 Maeda synthesized Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O with a transition temperature of 105 degrees Kelvin.
  • 1994 Paul CW Chu (University of Texas, Houston), Bernard Raveau (University of Caen), MK Wu (Columbia University) for outstanding discoveries of copper oxides with mixed valences that broadened the horizons of high temperature superconductors.
  • 1997 Bertram Batlogg , Robert J. Cava for their leadership role in researching a range of superconductors with a creative mix of chemistry, materials science and physics.
  • 2000 M. Brian Maple for his pioneering work on the general understanding of superconductivity and in particular its connection to magnetism.
  • 2003 Jun Akimitsu for novel superconductors magnesium diboride (MgB2), Bi-Sr-Cu-O, Nd-Ce-Sr-Cu-O and compressed (Sr, CA) 14Cu24O41, which led to advances in the transition temperature, opened new fields of research and new ones Opened ways for the production of superconductor wires.
  • 2006 Frank Steglich for the discovery (1979) of CeCu2Si2 and the associated novel electronic state, which opened up the new research field of solid-state physics of heavy fermions ( heavy fermion superconductivity ).
  • 2009 Yoshiteru Maeno , for his discovery of Sr2RuO4 as a platform that enables some unusual properties of superconductivity to be explored, and Hideo Hosono for the discovery of ferrous high-temperature superconductors (LaO1-xFxFeAs as the first of the Fe-Pnictide, 2008).
  • 2012 Dirk Johrendt (University of Munich) for his role in the discovery of BaFe2As2 and other materials that advanced research into ferrous high-temperature superconductors, and Ivan Bozovic and James Eckstein for fundamental and sustained research on novel syntheses and manufacturing methods of superconductors.
  • 2015 Xianhui Chen (University of Science and Technology of China) for his discovery of (Li, Fe) OHFe (Se, S), Ybx (Me) yHfNCl (Me = NH3 and THF), and doped phenanthrene . Zachary Fisk for discovering UBe13, UPt3, ThCoC2 and LaRhSi3 and for clarifying the role of heavy fermions and the lack of inversion symmetry in superconductivity. Zhongxian Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences) for the discovery of RE (O, F) and (RE) O1-xFeAs (RE = rare earth) with a transition temperature of up to 55 degrees Kelvin, and the demonstration of a limit in the transition temperature in iron-based superconductors in volume (that is, not with restricted geometry).
  • 2018 Katsuya Shimizu for his discovery of superconductivity in non-superconducting elements under high pressure with transition temperatures up to 29 degrees Kelvin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner of Bernd T. Matthias Prize Announced - University of Houston. In: uh.edu. September 11, 2018, accessed on September 23, 2018 .