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 ...

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. Historically, computational physics was the first application of modern computers in science, and is now a subset of computational science ...

research" and it is the highest award given by the APS for work in computational physics. The prize is named after

Aneesur Rahman Aneesur Rahman (24 August 1927 – 6 June 1987) was an Indian-born American physicist who 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 ...

(1927–1987), pioneer of the

molecular dynamics Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for analyzing the Motion (physics), 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 dynamics ( ...

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
* 2025 Chris G. Van de Walle * 2024 Gustavo E. Scuseria * 2023 Pablo G. Debenedetti * 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 Insti ...

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 Sauro Succi is an Italian scientist, internationally credited for being one of the founders of the Lattice Boltzmann method for fluid dynamics and soft matter. Life and Career Succi was born in Forlì. In 1979 he obtained a degree in nuclear eng ...

* 2016 Matthias Troyer * 2015 John D. Joannopoulos * 2014

Robert Swendsen Robert Haakon Swendsen is a Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known in the computational physics community for the Swendsen-Wang algorithm, the Monte Carlo Renormalization Group, and related methods that enable efficient ...

* 2013

James R. Chelikowsky James R. Chelikowsky is a professor of physics, chemical engineering, and chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United Stat ...

* 2012 Kai-Ming Ho * 2011 James M. Stone * 2010 Frans Pretorius * 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 physics, computational physicist in the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridg ...

* 2006 David Vanderbilt * 2005

Uzi Landman Uzi Landman (; May 1944) is an Israeli/American computational physicist, the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Computational Materials Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Career He earned a B.Sc. in chemistry at the Hebrew University, ...

* 2004 Farid Abraham * 2003 Steven R. White * 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, num ...

* 2000 Michael John Creutz * 1999 Michael L. Klein * 1998 David Matthew Ceperley * 1997 Donald H. Weingarten * 1996

Steven Gwon Sheng Louie Steven Gwon Sheng Lei (surname), Louie (26 March 1949, Taishan, Guangdong, Taishan, Guangdong, China)''American Men and Women of Science'', Thomson Gale, 2004. is a computational condensed matter physics, condensed-matter physicist. He is a profes ...

* 1995 Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello * 1994

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

* 1993

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

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Recipients

See also

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