The Wayne B. Nottingham Prize is awarded annually at the Physical Electronics Conference, a conference that focuses on new research results in surface science

Surface science

Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid–liquid interfaces, solid–gas interfaces, solid–vacuum interfaces, and liquid-gas interfaces. It includes the fields of surface chemistry and surface physics. Some related...

 and in the chemistry of surfaces and interfaces. The prestigious Nottingham Prize was established from contributions given in memory of Professor Wayne B. Nottingham of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 by his many friends and associates. The prize currently consists of a certificate and $1000, and is awarded to the best student paper presented at the conference. A student paper is defined as a paper based on a Ph.D. thesis whose date of submission to the faculty is no earlier than one year before the meeting at which the Prize is given.

Year	Nottingham Prize Winner(s)	Location	Thesis Advisor(s)
1966	L.F. Cordes	University of Minnesota	W.T. Peria
1967	D. Steiner & J.V. Hollweg	M.I.T & M.I.T	E.P. Gyftopoulous
1968	E. Ward Plummer Ward Plummer E. Ward Plummer is an American physicist. His main contributions are in surface physics of metals. Plummer is a Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University.-Biography:...	Cornell University	T.N. Rhodin Thor Rhodin Late Professor Emeritus, Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University, Thor Rhodin is credited with pioneering work in the birth and evolution of surface science beginning with his research on surface sensitivity using auger electron spectroscopy...
1969	John C. Tracy	Cornell University	J.M. Blakely
1970	J.M. Baker	Cornell University	J.M. Blakely
1971	D.P. Smith	Univ. of Minnesota	W.T. Peria
1972	W. Henry Weinberg	Univ. of California, Berkeley	R. Merrill
1973	J.R. Bower	Bartol Research Foundation	J.M. Chen
1974	N.J. Dionne & Torgny Gustafsson	Cornell University & Chalmers Univ. of Technology	T.N. Rhodin Thor Rhodin Late Professor Emeritus, Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University, Thor Rhodin is credited with pioneering work in the birth and evolution of surface science beginning with his research on surface sensitivity using auger electron spectroscopy...  & P.O. Nillson
1975	L.C. Isett	Cornell University	J.M. Blakely
1976	J.A. Knapp	Montana State University	G.A. Lapeyre
1977	S.-L. Weng	Univ. of Pennsylvania	E.W. Plummer Ward Plummer E. Ward Plummer is an American physicist. His main contributions are in surface physics of metals. Plummer is a Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University.-Biography:...
1978	Gwo-Ching Wang	Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison	M.G. Lagally Max G. Lagally Max G. Lagally is Erwin W. Mueller Professor and Bascom Professor of Surface Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.-Education:*BS 1963, Pennsylvania State University*MS 1965, University of Wisconsin–Madison...
1979	Wilson Ho	Univ. of Pennsylvania	E.W. Plummer Ward Plummer E. Ward Plummer is an American physicist. His main contributions are in surface physics of metals. Plummer is a Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University.-Biography:...
1980	R. Difoggio & Harry J. Levinson	Univ. of Chicago & Univ. of Pennsylvania	R. Gomer Robert Gomer Robert Gomer is an Austrian scientist, known for his research on field electron emission and field ionization, and his role as an adviser to the United States government....  & E.W. Plummer Ward Plummer E. Ward Plummer is an American physicist. His main contributions are in surface physics of metals. Plummer is a Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University.-Biography:...
1981	Ruud M. Tromp	FOM Institut	F.W. Saris
1982	P.O. Hahn	Univ. of Hanover	M. Henzler
1983	R. Raue	Cologne and KFA Julich	G. Guntherodt & M. Campagna
1984	M. Onellion	Rice University	G.K. Walters
1985	K. Gibson & J.W.M. Frenken	Univ. of Chicago & FOM Institut	S.J. Sibener & J.F. van der Veen
1986	S.M. Yalisove	Univ. of Pennsylvania	W.R. Graham
1987	John D. Beckerle	M.I.T.	S.T. Ceyer
1988	Lee J. Richter	Cornell University	W. Ho
1989	J.-K. Zuo	R.P.I.	G.-C. Wang
1990	Y.-W. Mo	Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison	M.G. Lagally
1991	Brian S. Swartzentruber	Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison	M.B. Webb
1992	Thomas Michely	KFA, Julich	G. Comsa
1993	Anna K. Swan	Boston University	M. El-Batanouny
1994	G. Rosenfeld	KFA, Julich	G. Comsa
1995	Marcus K. Weldon	Harvard University	C. Friend
1996	J. Carpinelli & B. Kohler	Univ. of Tennessee & Fritz Haber Inst.	E.W. Plummer & M. Scheffler
1997	D. Gragson	Univ. of Oregon	G. Richmond
1998	Barry C. Stipe & M.S. Hoogeman	Cornell University & FOM Inst./Leiden Univ.	W. Ho & J.W.M. Frenken
1999	Kalman Pelhos	Rutgers University	T.E. Madey
2000	Lincoln Lauhon	Cornell University	W. Ho
2001	Gayle Thayer	Sandia Livermore & UC Davis	R. Hwang & S. Chiang
2002	Denis Potapenko	Rutgers University	B.J. Hinch
2003	John P. Pierce	Univ. of Tennessee & ORNL	E.W. Plummer & Jian Shen
2004	Peter Wahl	Max Planck Inst. for Solid State Physics	Klaus Kern
2005	Nathan Guisinger	Northwestern University	Mark C. Hersam
2006	Mustafa Murat Özer & Paul C. Snijders	University of Tennessee and Delft University of Technology	J.R. Thompson and H.H. Weitering & H.H. Weitering
2007	Peter Maksymovych	University of Pittsburgh	J. T. Yates, Jr.
2008	Brett Goldsmith	Univ. of California, Irvine	P.G. Collins
2009	Alpha T. N'Diaye	Univ. of Cologne	T. Michely
2010	Heather L. Tierney	Tufts University	E. Charles H. Sykes