Lilienfeld Prize
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The Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...

, to remember Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was an Austro-Hungarian physicist. He was born in Lemberg in Austria-Hungary , moved to the United States in the early 1920s, and became American citizen in 1934...

, has been awarded annually, since 1989. (It was not awarded in 2002). The purpose of the Prize is to recognize outstanding contributions to physics.

Recipients

  • 2011: Gerald Gabrielse
    Gerald Gabrielse
    Gerald Gabrielse is an American physicist and the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University. In 2007, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.- Education :...

  • 2010: David Campbell
    David Campbell
    -Politics:*David Campbell , Governor of Virginia*David Campbell *David Campbell , South Belfast M.P.*David Campbell , former New South Wales Transport Minister...

     & Shlomo Havlin
    Shlomo Havlin
    Shlomo Havlin is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. He served as President of the Israel Physical Society , Dean of Faculty of Exact Sciences , Chairman, Department of Physics .-Biography:Professor Shlomo Havlin was born in Jerusalem, Israel...

  • 2009: Ramamurti Shankar
    Ramamurti Shankar
    Ramamurti Shankar is the John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. His research is in theoretical condensed matter physics, although he is also known for his earlier work in theoretical particle physics...

  • 2008: H. Eugene Stanley
    H. Eugene Stanley
    Harry Eugene Stanley is an American physicist and University Professor at Boston University. He has made seminal contributions to statistical physics and is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary science...

  • 2007: Lisa Randall
    Lisa Randall
    Lisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of the universe. Her most well known contribution to the field is the Randall-Sundrum model,...

  • 2006: Mikhail Shifman
    Mikhail Shifman
    -External links:*****...

  • 2005: Robert Hamilton Austin
  • 2004: H. Jeff Kimble
    H. Jeff Kimble
    H. Jeff Kimble is the William L. Valentine Professor and Professor of Physics at Caltech. His research is in quantum optics and is noted for groundbreaking experiments in physics including one of the first demonstrations of teleportation of a quantum state , quantum logic gate, and the development...

  • 2003: Frank A. Wilczek
  • 2002: Not awarded
  • 2001: Lawrence M. Krauss
    Lawrence M. Krauss
    Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is an American theoretical physicist who is professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at the Arizona State University. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of...

  • 2000: Robert J. Birgeneau
  • 1999: Stephen William Hawking
  • 1998: Douglas James Scalapino
  • 1997: Michael S. Turner
  • 1996: Kip Stephen Thorne
  • 1995: Valentine A. Telegdi
  • 1994: Marvin L. Cohen
    Marvin L. Cohen
    Marvin L. Cohen is a Canadian-born American physicist. He is a professor of condensed matter physics and materials science at the University of California, Berkeley. Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin studied under John D. Joannopoulos, a student of Cohen's.Cohen received his PhD from the...

  • 1993: David N. Schramm
  • 1992: Alan H. Guth and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
    Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
    Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist and Nobel Laureate. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms...

  • 1991: Daniel Kleppner
    Daniel Kleppner
    Daniel Kleppner, born 1932, is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and co-director of the . He is the winner of the 2005 Wolf Prize in Physics , and the 2007 . Prof. Kleppner has also been awarded the National Medal of Science . Together with Robert J. Kolenkow, he authored a...

  • 1990: Michael V. Berry
  • 1989: N. David Mermin

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