The Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize was established in 2000, under the sponsorship of Elsevier, by the organizers of the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity (M2S). The prize is named in honor of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who discovered superconductivity in 1911. At each conference, the prize, which consists of 7500 and a certificate, is presented to one or more physicists. If there are two or more recipients they share the money. The prize "recognizes outstanding experiments which illuminate the nature of superconductivity other than materials". The winners are selected by the members of the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize Committee, appointed by the conference organizers.[1]

The prize was first awarded in 2000 at the 6th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors:

The new H. Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for outstanding experiments that illuminate the nature of superconductivity other than materials, was established by Elsevier Science, publisher of Physica C-Superconductivity and its Applications. The first H. Kamerlingh Onnes Prize was awarded to Zhi-Xun Shen.[2]

The prize is "one of the leading awards for experimental research in superconductivity."[3]

Recipients

The following are recipients:[4]

Year Name Citation
2000 Zhi-Xun Shen "For elucidating the electron structure of high-temperature superconductors and other strongly interacting electron materials by angular resolved photoelectron spectroscopy."
2003 George Crabtree "For pioneering and seminal experiments which elucidated the vortex phase diagram in high temperature superconductors under various conditions of disorder and anisotropy."
Eli Zeldov
2006 N. Phuan Ong "For pioneering and seminal transport experiments which illuminated the unconventional nature of the metallic state of high temperature superconducting cuprates."
Hidenori Takagi
Shin-ichi Uchida
2009 J.C. Séamus Davis "For pioneering and seminal experiments which illuminate the nature of superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems."
Aharon Kapitulnik
John Tranquada
2012 Herbert A. Mook "For their long-term outstanding and pioneering contributions to the experimental superconductivity research."
Teunis M. Klapwijk
Øystein H. Fischer
2015 Gilbert G, Lonzarich "For visionary experiments concerning the emergence of superconductivity among strongly renormalized quasiparticles at the edge of magnetic order."
2018 Yuji Matsuda "For illuminating the nature of superconductivity in unconventional superconductors."
Louis Taillefer
2022 Bernhard Keimer "For experiments determining spin and charge correlations in high temperature superconductors using x-ray and neutron scattering."
Giacomo Ghiringhelli
Pengcheng Dai

See also

References

  1. "Home". Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize.
  2. Chu, P.C. (2000). "International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors (6th) Held in Houston, Texas on February 20-25, 2000, hosted by the Texas Center for Superconductivity Houston". Defense Technical Information Center.
  3. Boyd, Jade (January 14, 2022). "Rice physicist Pengcheng Dai wins superconductivity award". News and Media Relations, Office of Public Affairs, Rice University.
  4. "Past Kamerlingh Ommes Prize Recipients".
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