Bridgman Award

The Bridgman Award is a prize of the International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology (AIRAPT), which is given every two years for the physics and chemistry of high pressures. It is named after Percy Williams Bridgman , the Nobel Prize laureate and research pioneer in the field.

Award winners

1977 Harry George Drickamer
1979 Boris Vodar , France
1981 E. Ulrich Franck (1920–2004), professor for physical chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe
1983 Albert Francis Birch (1903–1992), geophysicist and mineralogist, professor at Harvard
1985 Nestor Joseph Trappeniers (1922–2004), professor in Amsterdam
1987 Francis P. Bundy (1910–2008), Diamond synthesis under high pressure at General Electric 1954
1989 Ho-kwang Mao , Carnegie Institution, Washington DC
1991 Shigeru Minomura (1923–2000), professor at the Institute for Solid State Research in Tokyo, later in Hokkaido and at Okayama University
1993 Arthur L. Ruoff , Professor at Cornell University
1995 Bogdan Baranowski (1927–2014), professor of physical chemistry in Warsaw
1997 William A. Bassett (* 1931), Professor of Geology, Cornell University
1999 Vladimir Fortov
2001 William J. Nellis
2003 Neil Ashcroft
2005 Sergei Mikhailovich Stishov , professor and director of the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2007 Takehiko Yagi , Professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo

2009 Russell J. Hemley , Geophysical Laboratory Director, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC

2011 Eji Ito , Professor Emeritus at Okayama University