Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

The Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics has been awarded since 2010. The award was brought to life by the Frontiers Cluster of Excellence in Quantum Photon Science, which is funded by the Joachim Herz Foundation . The Joachim Herz Foundation and the Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) have jointly awarded the prize since 2013, and in 2018 the Hamburg Wolfgang Pauli Center, jointly supported by the University of Hamburg and DESY , was added as a further partner.

The prize, endowed with 100,000 euros since 2018, is awarded for outstanding research achievements in the field of theoretical physics and is combined with a research and teaching stay for the scientist in Hamburg. The award ceremony takes place annually in November.

Award winners

• 2010 Maciej Lewenstein , ICFO Barcelona
• 2011 Peter Zoller , University of Innsbruck
• 2012 Shaul Mukamel , University of California
• 2013 Chris H. Greene , Purdue University
• 2014 Antoine Georges , Collège de France, École Polytechnique, University of Geneva
• 2015 Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain , Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Garching
• 2016 Mikhail Katsnelson , Radboud University Nijmegen
• 2017 Andrew Millis , Columbia University New York
• 2018 Hirosi Ooguri , California Institute of Technology
• 2019 Matthias Troyer , ETH Zurich
• 2020 Valery Rubakov , Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Web links

• Prize for Theoretical Physics. Joachim Herz Foundation, Hamburg