Von Hippel Award
The Von Hippel Award is the highest scientific award of the Materials Research Society in memory of Arthur R. von Hippel . It has been awarded annually since 1978, the first prize winner was von Hippel himself in 1976.
The prize in the field of interdisciplinary materials science is endowed with 10,000 US dollars (as of 2014). Award winners also receive honorary membership of the Materials Research Society and are supposed to give a lecture at the opening of the respective autumn meeting of the society.
Award winners
- 1976 Arthur R. von Hippel , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1978 William O. Baker , Bell Laboratories
- 1979 David Turnbull , Harvard University
- 1980 Conyers Herring , Stanford University
- 1981 James W. Mayer , Cornell University
- 1982 Clarence Melvin Zener , Carnegie Mellon University
- 1983 Peter B. Hirsch , University of Oxford
- 1984 Walter L. Brown , AT&T Bell Laboratories
- 1985 John W. Cahn , National Bureau of Standards
- 1986 Minko Balkanski , Université Pierre et Marie Curie
- 1987 Frederick Charles Frank , University of Bristol
- 1988 Jacques Friedel , Université de Paris-Sud
- 1989 John B. Goodenough , The University of Texas, Austin
- 1990 Robert W. Balluffi , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1991 Theodore Geballe , Stanford University
- 1992 Michael F. Ashby , University of Cambridge
- 1993 Frederick Seitz , The Rockefeller University
- 1994 Alfred Y. Cho , AT&T Bell Laboratories
- 1995 William W. Mullins , Carnegie Mellon University
- 1996 Alan Cottrell , University of Cambridge
- 1997 Gábor A. Somorjai , University of California, Berkeley
- 1998 Larry L. Hench , Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
- 1999 Richard S. Stein , University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- 2000 George Whitesides , Harvard University
- 2001 Simon C. Moss , University of Houston
- 2002 Howard K. Birnbaum , University of Illinois
- 2003 Julia R. Weertman , Northwestern University
- 2004 Nick Holonyak , Jr., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 2005 Robert Langer , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2006 Knut Urban , Research Center Jülich
- 2007 William Nix , Stanford University
- 2008 Herbert Gleiter , Research Center Karlsruhe
- 2009 Tobin Marks , Northwestern University
- 2010 L. Eric Cross , The Pennsylvania State University
- 2011 A. Paul Alivisatos , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley
- 2012 Stuart Parkin , IBM Almaden Research Center
- 2013 Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2014 Marvin L. Cohen , University of California, Berkeley
- 2015 Richard H. Friend , University of Cambridge
- 2016 Charles M. Lieber , Harvard University
- 2017 CNR Rao , Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research
- 2018 Hideo Hosono , Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 2019 Jerry D. Tersoff , IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Web links
- Von Hippel Award on the Materials Research Society website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Von Hippel Award 2019. In: mrs.org. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .