Holweck Prize

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The Holweck Prize (English Holweck medal , French Prix ​​Holweck ) has been awarded annually since 1946 to French and British physicists by the Société française de physique and the Institute of Physics . A medal is associated with the award, first in bronze, from 1972 in gold.

It is named after the physicist Fernand Holweck (1890-1941), who among other things dealt with soft X-rays, pumps for high vacuum, gravimeters and early television picture tubes and was murdered in 1941 by the Gestapo because of his membership in the Resistance . He was director of the Curie Laboratory at the Radium Institute (now Institut Curie ) in Paris.

It is the second binational prize of the French physical society (next to the Gentner-Kastler Prize ) and the fourth from the Institute of Physics (next to the German-British Max Born Prize , the British-Australian Massey Prize and the British-Italian Prize Occhialini Medal).

There is also a Holweck Prize from the Academie des Sciences.

Award winners

Web links

  1. ^ Xavier Garbet Lauréat du Prix Holweck. In: irfm.cea.fr. April 12, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019 (French).