Holweck Prize
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
- 1946 Charles Sadron
- 1947 Edward Andrade
- 1948 Yves Rocard
- 1949 Leslie Fleetwood Bates
- 1950 Pierre Jacquinot
- 1951 Thomas Ralph Merton
- 1952 Louis Néel
- 1953 John Ashworth Ratcliffe
- 1954 Alfred Kastler
- 1955 Nicholas Kurti
- 1956 Jean-Paul Mathieu
- 1957 Denys Wilkinson
- 1958 Anatole Abragam
- 1959 Robert Hanbury Brown
- 1960 Jean Brossel
- 1961 Brian Pippard
- 1962 Jean-François Denisse
- 1963 Frederick Charles Frank
- 1964 Jacques Friedel
- 1965 Martin Ryle
- 1966 Raimond Castaing
- 1967 Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn
- 1968 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
- 1969 Alan Cottrell
- 1970 Pierre Connes
- 1971 Dennis Gábor
- 1972 Lionel Solomon
- 1973 Brian D. Josephson
- 1974 Philippe Nozières and Antony Hewish
- 1975 Evry Schatzman
- 1976 Harry Elliot
- 1977 Maurice Goldman
- 1978 William Frank Vinen
- 1979 André Blandin
- 1980 David J. Thouless
- 1981 René Turlay
- 1982 Raymond Hide
- 1983 Gérard Toulouse
- 1984 Brebis Bleaney
- 1985 Denis Jérome
- 1986 Gareth Gwyn Roberts
- 1988 Peter B. Hirsch
- 1989 Eric Varoquaux
- 1990 Roger Cowley
- 1991 Alain Aspect
- 1992 Donald Hill Perkins
- 1993 David Ruelle
- 1994 Lawrence John Challis
- 1995 Pierre Léna
- 1996 John Wickham Steeds
- 1997 Jean-Pierre Briand
- 1998 William Gelletly
- 1999 Oriol Bohigas
- 2000 Frank Henry Read
- 2001 Pierre Coullet
- 2002 John Bernard Pethica
- 2003 Catherine Bréchignac
- 2004 Adrian Wyatt
- 2005 Philippe Monod
- 2006 Julia Higgins
- 2007 Jean-Pierre Hulin
- 2008 Denis Weaire
- 2009 Christian Colliex
- 2010 Steven T. Bramwell
- 2011 Joël Cibert
- 2012 Helen Gleeson
- 2013 Alexandre Bouzdine
- 2014 Ramin Golestanian
- 2015 Isabelle Ledoux-Rak
- 2016 Zoran Hadzibabic
- 2017 Victor Malka
- 2018 Marina Galand
- 2019 Xavier Garbet
Web links
- ^ Xavier Garbet Lauréat du Prix Holweck. In: irfm.cea.fr. April 12, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019 (French).