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The EPS CMD Europhysics Prize is awarded (currently every 2nd year) since 1975 by the Condensed Matter Division of the
European Physical Society The European Physical Society (EPS) is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe through methods such as physics outreach. Formally established in 1968, its membership includes the national physical so ...
, in recognition of recent work (completed in the 5 years preceding the attribution of the award) by one or more individuals, for scientific excellence in the area of condensed matter physics. It is one of Europe’s most prestigious prizes in the field of condensed matter physics. Several laureates of the EPS CMD Europhysics Prize also received a
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in Physics or Chemistry (Geim, Novoselov, Fert, Grünberg, Kroto, Smalley, Ertl, Bednorz, Müller, Binnig, Rohrer, von Klitzing, Alferov).


Laureates

Source
European Physical Society
* 2020: Jörg Wrachtrup - Pioneering studies on quantum coherence in solid-state systems and their applications for sensing, and, in particular, for major breakthroughs in the study of the optical and spin properties of nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond. * 2018: Lucio Braicovich and Giacomo Claudio Ghiringhelli - The development and scientific exploration of high-resolution Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS). * 2016: ,
Alexei N. Bogdanov Alexey, Alexei, Alexie, Aleksei, or Aleksey (russian: Алексе́й ; bg, Алексей ) is a Russian and Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Ale ...
, Christian Pfleiderer, ,
Ashvin Vishwanath Ashvin Vishwanath (born January 9, 1973) is an Indian-American theoretical physicist known for important contributions to condensed matter physics. He is a professor of physics at Harvard University. Vishwanath was elected as a member of the Amer ...
- Theoretical prediction, experimental discovery and theoretical analysis of a magnetic skyrmion phase in MnSi, a new state of matter. * 2014: Harold Y. Hwang,
Jochen Mannhart Jochen Mannhart (born 24 April 1960 in Metzingen) is a German physicist. Biography Jochen Mannhart studied physics at the University of Tübingen, Germany, from 1980 to 1986, where he also received his PhD in 1987 and his habilitation in 1994. ...
and - for the discovery and investigation of electron liquids at oxide interfaces * 2012: Steven T. Bramwell, Claudio Castelnovo, Santiago Grigera, Roderich Moessner,
Shivaji Sondhi Shivaji Lal Sondhi is an Indian-born theoretical physicist who is currently the Wykeham Professor of Physics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, known for contributions to the field of quantum cond ...
and Alan Tennant - Prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles in spin ice * 2010: Hartmut Buhmann, Charles Kane, Eugene J. Mele,
Laurens W. Molenkamp Laurens W. Molenkamp (born 4 August 1956) is a professor of physics and Chair of Experimental Physics at the University of Würzburg. He is known for his work on semiconductor structures and topological insulators.Shoucheng Zhang Shoucheng Zhang (; February 15, 1963 – December 1, 2018) was a Chinese-American physicist who was the JG Jackson and CJ Wood professor of physics at Stanford University. He was a condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological ins ...
- Theoretical prediction and the experimental observation of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators * 2008:
Andre Geim , birth_date = , birth_place = Sochi, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union , death_date = , death_place = , workplaces = , nationality = Dutch and British , fields = Condensed matter physics ...
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Kostya Novoselov Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov ( rus, Константи́н Серге́евич Новосёлов, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ nəvɐˈsʲɵləf; born 1974) is a Russian-British physicist, and a professor at the ...
- Discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon (graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties * 2006:
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 ...
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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 ...
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Dieter Vollhardt Dieter Vollhardt (born September 8, 1951) is a German physicist and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Augsburg. Scientific work Vollhardt is one of the founders of the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) for strongly correlated m ...
- Development and application of the dynamical mean field theory * 2005: David Awschalom, Tomasz Dietl, Hideo Ohno - For their work on ferromagnetic semiconductors and spintronics * 2004:
Michel Devoret Michel Devoret is a French physicist and F. W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. He also holds a position as the Director of the Applied Physics Nanofabrication Lab at Yale. He is known for his pioneering work on macroscopi ...
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Daniel Estève Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew language, Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel (given ...
, Johan Mooij,
Yasunobu Nakamura Yasunobu Nakamura (中村 泰信 Nakamura Yasunobu) is a Japanese physicist. He is a professor at the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) and the Principal Investigator of the Superconducting Quantu ...
- Realisation and demonstration of the quantum bit concept based on superconducting circuits * 2003: Heino Finkelmann,
Mark Warner Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Virginia, a seat he has held since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Warner served as the 69th governo ...
- Discovery of a new class of materials called liquid crystal elastomers * 2002: ,
Jonathan Friedman Jonathan Friedman (born April 7, 1946) is an American anthropologist. He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1972. He is professor emeritus of Anthropology at University of California, San Diego and Director of Studies at the École des h ...
, Dante Gatteschi,
Roberta Sessoli Roberta Sessoli is Professor of General and Inorganic chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry "Hugo Schiff, Ugo Schiff" at the University of Florence. Sessoli's research has had significant impact upon the field of molecular m ...
, - Development of the field of quantum dynamics of nanomagnets, including the discovery of quantum tunnelling and interference in dynamics of magnetization * 2001: Sumio Iijima, Cees Dekker, Thomas W. Ebbesen, Paul L. McEuen - Discovery of multi- and single-walled carbon nanotubes and pioneering studies of their fundamental mechanical and electronic properties * 2000: Paolo Carra, Gerrit van der Laan, Gisela Schütz - Pioneering work in establishing the field of magnetic x-ray dichroism * 1999: , Michael Reznikov - For developing novel techniques for noise measurements in solids leading to experimental observation of carriers with a fractional charge * 1998:
Thomas Maurice Rice Thomas Maurice Rice (born 26 January 1939 in Dundalk, Ireland), known professionally as Maurice Rice, is an Irish (and naturalised American) theoretical physicist specializing in condensed matter physics. Life Rice is the younger brother of st ...
- Original contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems * 1997: Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg,
Stuart Parkin Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (born 9 December 1955) is an experimental physicist, IBM Fellow and manager of the magnetoelectronics group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He is also a consulting professor in the dep ...
- Discovery and contribution to the understanding of the giant magneto-resistance effect in transition-metal multilayers and demonstrations of its potential for technological applications * 1996:
Richard Friend Sir Richard Henry Friend (born 18 January 1953) is a British physicist who was the Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1995 until 2020 and is Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singap ...
- Pioneering work on semiconducting organic polymer materials and demonstration of an organic light emitting diode * 1995: Yakir Aharonov, Michael V. Berry - Introduction of fundamental concepts in physics that have profound impact on condensed matter science * 1994: Donald R. Huffman,
Wolfgang Krätschmer Wolfgang Krätschmer (born 16 November 1942 in Berlin) is a German physicist. Krätschmer studied physics in Berlin. After his Diplom he went to the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and earned his PhD there in 1971 with a t ...
, Harry Kroto,
Richard Smalley Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of ch ...
- New molecular forms of carbon and their production in the solid state * 1993: Boris L. Altshuler, Arkadii G. Aronov, David E. Khmelnitskii, Anatoly I. Larkin, Boris Spivak - Theoretical work on coherent phenomena in disordered conductors * 1992: Gerhard Ertl,
Harald Ibach Harald P. W. Ibach (born 15 April 1941 in Rheine) is a German solid state physicist. Education and career Ibach received his doctorate in 1969 from RWTH Aachen University with his dissertation ''Thermische Ausdehnung von Silizium und Zinkoxid'' ...
, J. Peter Toennies - Pioneering studies of surface structures, dynamics and reactions through the development of novel experimental methods * 1991:
Klaus Bechgaard Klaus Bechgaard (5 March 1945 – 7 March 2017) was a Danish scientist and chemist, noted for being one of the first scientists in the world to synthesize a number of organic charge transfer complexes and demonstrate their superconductivity, ther ...
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Denis Jérome Denis Jerome (born 28 February 1939 in Paris) is a French experimental physicist in the field of condensed matter, who contributed to the discovery of superconductivity in organic conductive matter. Career He studied at the Sorbonne, where he o ...
- Synthesis of a new class of organic metals and the discovery of their superconductivity and novel magnetic properties * 1990:
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 ...
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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 ...
- A novel and powerful method for the ab-initio calculation of molecular dynamics * 1989:
Frank Steglich Frank Steglich (born 14 March 1941) is a German physicist. He studied physics in the University of Münster and the University of Göttingen. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 1986 and a num ...
, Hans-Rudolf Ott, Gilbert G. Lonzarich - Pioneering investigations of heavy-fermion metals * 1988: J. Georg Bednorz,
K. Alex Müller Karl Alexander Müller (20 April 1927 – 9 January 2023) was a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials. Biography Mülle ...
- Discovery of high-temperature superconductivity * 1987: Igor K. Yanson - Point-contact spectroscopy in metals * 1986: - Neutron spin echo spectroscopy * 1985: ,
Michael Pepper Sir Michael Pepper (born 10 August 1942) is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures. Early life Pepper was born on 10 August 1942 to Morris and Ruby Pepper. He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, a g ...
- The experimental study of low dimensional physics * 1984:
Gerd Binnig Gerd Binnig (; born 20 July 1947) is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope. Early life and education Binnig wa ...
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Heinrich Rohrer Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 – 16 May 2013) was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst R ...
- Scanning tunnelling microscope * 1983: Isaac F. Silvera - Atomic and solid hydrogen * 1982: Klaus von Klitzing - Experimental demonstration of the quantized Hall resistance * 1981: ''No award'' * 1980: O. Krogh Andersen, Andries Rinse Miedema - Original methods for the calculation of the electronic properties of materials * 1979: Eric A. Ash, Jeffrey H. Collins, Yuri V. Gulaev, K.A. Ingebrigtsen,
E.G.S. Paige Professor Edward George Sydney Paige FRS (18 July 1930 – 20 February 2004), known as Ted Paige, was a British physicist and engineer. His main areas of research were semiconductor devices to improve radar, including work on surface acoustic ...
- The physical principles of surface acoustic wave devices * 1978: Zhores Alferov - Heterojunctions * 1977:
Walter Eric Spear Walter Eric Spear FRSE PhD FRS FInstP (20 January 1921 – 21 February 2008) was a German physicist noted for his pioneering work to help develop large area electronics and thin film displays. He was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish father and a ...
- Amorphous silicon devices * 1976:
Wolfgang Helfrich Wolfgang Helfrich (born 25 March 1932) is a German physicist and inventor recognized for his contributions to twisted-nematic liquid crystal technology, which is used to produce a variety of modern LCD electronic displays. Career Helfrich s ...
- Contributions to the physics of liquid crystals * 1975: Victor S. Bagaev,
Leonid V. Keldysh Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh (; 7 April 1931 – 11 November 2016) was a Soviet and Russian physicist. Keldysh was a professor in the I.E. Tamm Theory division of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and a f ...
, Jaroslav E. Pokrovsky, Michel Voos - The condensation of excitons


See also

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List of physics awards This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics. The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a lis ...


References

{{reflist Awards of the European Physical Society Condensed matter physics awards