The Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics is a prize that has been awarded annually by the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

since 1993. The recipient is chosen for "''outstanding achievement in

computational physics Computational physics is the study and implementation of numerical analysis to solve problems in physics for which a quantitative theory already exists. Historically, computational physics was the first application of modern computers in science, ...

research''". The prize is named after

Aneesur Rahman Aneesur Rahman (24 August 1927 – 6 June 1987) pioneered the application of computational methods to physical systems. His 1964 paper on liquid argon studied a system of 864 argon atoms on a CDC 3600 computer, using a Lennard-Jones potential ...

(d. 1987), pioneer of the

molecular dynamics Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for analyzing the physical movements of atoms and molecules. The atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a fixed period of time, giving a view of the dynamic "evolution" of the ...

simulation method. The prize was valued at $5,000 from 2007 to 2014, and is currently valued at $10,000.

Recipients

Source
American Physical Society
* 2022

Giulia Galli Giulia Galli is a condensed-matter physicist. She is the Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the department of chemistry at the University of Chicago and senior scient ...

* 2021 Anders W. Sandvik * 2020

Antoine Georges Antoine Georges (born 1961) is a French physicist. He is a professor at the Collège de France in Paris (where he holds the chair of Condensed Matter Physics) and the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Instit ...

and

Gabriel Kotliar Gabriel Kotliar (born 1957) is a physicist at Rutgers University in the United States, where he is Board of Governors Professor of Physics. Early life Kotliar was born in Argentina. He studied in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, wher ...

* 2019 Sharon C. Glotzer * 2018 * 2017 Sauro Succi * 2016 * 2015 John D. Joannopoulos * 2014 Robert Swendsen * 2013 James R. Chelikowsky * 2012 Kai-Ming Ho * 2011 James M. Stone * 2010

Frans Pretorius Frans Pretorius (born 31 July 1973) is a South African and Canadian physicist, specializing in computer simulations in astrophysics and numerical solutions of Einstein's field equations. He is professor of physics at Princeton University and direct ...

* 2009 * 2008 Gary S. Grest * 2007

Daan Frenkel Daan Frenkel One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1948, Amsterdam) is a Dutch computational physicist in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Education ...

* 2006

David Vanderbilt David Vanderbilt is a professor of physics at Rutgers University researching condensed-matter physics since 1991, and named Board of Governors Professor of Physics in 2009. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1976 and his Ph.D. from MI ...

* 2005 Uzi Landman * 2004 Farid Abraham * 2003

Steven R. White Steven R. White is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a condensed matter physicist who specializes in the simulation of quantum systems. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego; he then received ...

* 2002

David P. Landau David P. Landau (born June 22, 1941) is Distinguished Research Professor of Physics and founding Director of the Center for Simulational Physics at the University of Georgia. In 1967, he received his PhD at Yale University under the direction of ...

* 2001

Alex Zunger Alex Zunger is a theoretical physicist, Research Professor, at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has authored more than 150 papers in Physical Review Letters and Physical Reviews B Rapid Communication, has an h-index over 150, number of c ...

* 2000

Michael John Creutz Michael John Creutz (born November 24, 1944) is an American theoretical physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory specializing in lattice gauge theory and computational physics. Background Creutz was born in 1944 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. His f ...

* 1999

Michael L. Klein Michael Lawrence Klein (born March 13, 1940, in London, England) is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Science and director of the Institute for Computational Molecular Science in the college of science and technology at Temple University in Phila ...

* 1998

David Matthew Ceperley David Matthew Ceperley (born 1949) is a theoretical physicist in the physics department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign or UIUC. He is a world expert in the area of Quantum Monte Carlo computations, a method of calculation that is ...

* 1997

Donald H. Weingarten Donald Henry Weingarten (born February 16, 1945) is a computational physicist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received an undergraduate degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1970 from Columbia University, New York. From 1969 to 1976 he held research ...

* 1996

Steven Gwon Sheng Louie Steven Gwon Sheng Louie (26 March 1949, Taishan, Guangdong, China)''American Men and Women of Science'', Thomson Gale, 2004. is a computational condensed-matter physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and ...

* 1995

Roberto Car Roberto Car (born 3 January 1947 in Trieste) is an Italian physicist and the Ralph W. Dornte *31 Professor in Chemistry at Princeton University, where he is also a faculty member in the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materia ...

and

Michele Parrinello Michele Parrinello (born 7 September 1945, Messina) is an Italian physicist particularly known for his work in molecular dynamics (the computer simulation of physical movements of atoms and molecules). Parrinello and Roberto Car were awarded the ...

* 1994

John M. Dawson John Myrick Dawson (30 September 1930 in Champaign, Illinois – 17 November 2001 in Los Angeles) was an American computational physicist and the father of plasma-based acceleration techniques. Dawson earned his degrees in physics from t ...

* 1993

Kenneth G. Wilson Kenneth Geddes "Ken" Wilson (June 8, 1936 – June 15, 2013) was an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in leveraging computers for studying particle physics. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on phase ...

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