The Fritz London Memorial Prize was created to recognize scientists who made outstanding contributions to the advances of the field of

Low Temperature Physics In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. The 13th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (held in Washington DC in 1971) endorsed a universal definition of “cryogenics” and “cr ...

. It is traditionally awarded in the first session of

the International Conference on Low Temperature Physics The International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT) is an academic conference held every three years near the month of September attracting on average well over a thousand participants from all over the world. The LT conferences are endorse ...

, which is sponsored by the

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP ) is an international non-governmental organization whose mission is to assist in the worldwide development of physics, to foster international cooperation in physics, and to help in the ...

. The prize is named in honor of

Fritz London Fritz Wolfgang London (March 7, 1900 – March 30, 1954) was a German physicist and professor at Duke University. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces ( London dispersion forces) are today ...

Winners

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Duke University
* 1957

Nicholas Kurti Nicholas Kurti, ( hu, Kürti Miklós) (14 May 1908 – 24 November 1998) was a Hungarian-born British physicist who lived in Oxford, UK, for most of his life. Career Born in Budapest, Kurti went to high school at the Minta Gymnasium, but due ...

* 1960 Lev D. Landau * 1962

John Bardeen John Bardeen (; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the tran ...

* 1964

David Shoenberg David Shoenberg, MBE FRS, (4 January 1911 – 10 March 2004) was a British physicist who worked in condensed matter physics. Shoenberg is known for having developed experimental and theoretical principles to study the De Haas–Van Alphen effe ...

* 1966 Cornelis J. Gorter * 1968 William M. Fairbank * 1970

Brian Josephson Brian David Josephson (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he was awarded the ...

* 1972 Alexei Abrikosov * 1975

John Wheatley John Wheatley (19 May 1869 – 12 May 1930) was a Scottish socialist politician. He was a prominent figure of the Red Clydeside era. Early life and career Wheatley was born to Thomas and Johanna Wheatley in Bonmahon, County Waterford, Ire ...

* 1978 Guenter Ahlers,

William L. McMillan William L. McMillan (January 13, 1936 – August 30, 1984) was an American physicist noted for his research of condensed matter physics. McMillan was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor of Physics at University of Illinois, ...

, John M. Rowell * 1981

John Reppy John David Reppy (born February 16, 1931) is a physicist and the John L. Wetherill Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell University. He studies the quantum properties of superfluids such as helium. Reppy is also a notable rock climber of lo ...

Anthony J. Leggett Sir Anthony James Leggett (born 26 March 1938) is a British-American theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Leggett is widely recognised as a world leader in the theory of low-temperatur ...

, Isidor Rudnick * 1984 Werner Buckel,

Olli Lounasmaa Olli Viktor Lounasmaa (20 August 1930, Turku – 27 December 2002, Goa, India) was a Finnish academician, experimental physicist and neuroscientist. He was known for his research in low temperature physics, especially for experimental proof of th ...

, David J. Thouless * 1987 K. Alex Müller,

Johannes Georg Bednorz Johannes Georg Bednorz (; born 16 May 1950) is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. Life and work Bednorz was bor ...

, Jun Kondo, John Clarke * 1990 Robert C. Dynes, Pierre C. Hohenberg,

Anatoly Larkin Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin (russian: Анатолий Иванович Ларкин; October 14, 1932 – August 4, 2005) was a Russian theoretical physicist, universally recognised as a leader in theory of condensed matter, and who was also a cele ...

* 1993 Albert Schmid, Dennis Greywall, Horst Meyer * 1996 Moses H. W. Chan, Carl Wieman, Eric A. Cornell * 1999 Douglas F. Brewer, Matti Krusius,

Wolfgang Ketterle Wolfgang Ketterle (; born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute ze ...

* 2002

Russell J. Donnelly Russell James Donnelly (born 16 April 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, died 13 June 2015 in Eugene, Oregon) was a Canadian-American physicist known for his work on classical and quantum fluid dynamics. He connected the fields of low temperature physic ...

, Walter N. Hardy, Allen M. Goldman * 2005 Sébastien Balibar, J.C. Séamus Davis, Richard Packard * 2008 Yuriy M. Bunkov, Vladimir V. Dmitriev, Igor A. Fomin * 2011 Humphrey Maris, Hans Mooij, Gerd Schön * 2014

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 ...

, John M. Martinis,

Robert J. Schoelkopf Robert J. Schoelkopf III (born January 24, 1964) is an American physicist, most noted for his work on quantum computing as one of the inventors of superconducting qubits. Schoelkopf's main research areas are quantum transport, single-electron d ...

* 2017 William Halperin, Jeevak Parpia,

James Sauls James Avery Sauls is an American physicist. Sauls studied physics at the Colorado School of Mines, graduating in 1975, and pursued a doctorate in the subject at Stony Brook University, which he completed in 1980. Sauls began his academic career at ...

* 2020

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 ...

, Valerii Vinokour, Qi-Kun Xue

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