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, 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, 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 Roderich Moessner is a theoretical physicist at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. His research interests are in condensed matter and materials physics, especially concerning new and topological forms ...

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 con ...

and Alan Tennant - Prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles in spin ice * 2010: Hartmut Buhmann, Charles Kane, Eugene J. Mele, Laurens W. Molenkamp and

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 insu ...

- Theoretical prediction and the experimental observation of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators * 2008:

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and Kostya Novoselov - Discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon (graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties * 2006: Antoine Georges,

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 ...

, ,

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 ...

- Development and application of the dynamical mean field theory * 2005:

David Awschalom David D. Awschalom (born 1956 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States) is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors. Awschalom graduated from the University of Illinois a ...

Tomasz Dietl Tomasz is a Polish given name, the equivalent of Thomas in English. Notable people with the given name include: * Tomasz Adamek (born 1976), Polish heavyweight boxer *Tomasz Arciszewski (1877–1955), Polish socialist politician and Prime Mini ...

Hideo Ohno Hideo Ohno ( ja, 大野英男; Hideo Ōno; born 18 December 1954, Tokyo) is a Japanese physicist. He is the 22nd president of Tohoku University, succeeding Susumu Satomi in April 2018. Biography Ohno received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees fro ...

- 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 macroscop ...

, Daniel Estève, 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, University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) and the Principal Investigator of the Su ...

- 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 gov ...

- Discovery of a new class of materials called liquid crystal elastomers * 2002: , Jonathan Friedman, 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 Cornelis "Cees" Dekker (born 7 April 1959 in Haren, Groningen) is a Dutch physicist, and Distinguished University Professor at the Technical University of Delft. He is known for his research on carbon nanotubes, single-molecule biophysics, and na ...

, 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 - Original contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems * 1997:

Albert Fert Albert Fert (; born 7 March 1938) is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, ...

Peter Grünberg Peter Andreas Grünberg (; 18 May 1939 – 7 April 2018) was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk d ...

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 Yakir Aharonov ( he, יקיר אהרונוב; born August 28, 1932) is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman Univer ...

, 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 ...

Harry Kroto Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery ...

, Richard Smalley - 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 Gerhard Ertl (; born 10 October 1936) is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. Ertl's research laid the foundation of modern su ...

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, Denis Jérome - 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 Mater ...

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 numb ...

, Hans-Rudolf Ott, Gilbert G. Lonzarich - Pioneering investigations of heavy-fermion metals * 1988: J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller - 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 ...

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 ...

- Scanning tunnelling microscope * 1983: Isaac F. Silvera - Atomic and solid hydrogen * 1982:

Klaus von Klitzing Klaus von Klitzing (, born 28 June 1943, Schroda) is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics. Education In 1962, Klitzing passed the Abitur at the A ...

- 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 - The physical principles of surface acoustic wave devices * 1978:

Zhores Alferov Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (russian: link=no, Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, ; be, Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 15 March 19301 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed signific ...

- 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 - Contributions to the physics of liquid crystals * 1975: Victor S. Bagaev, Leonid V. Keldysh, Jaroslav E. Pokrovsky, Michel Voos - The condensation of excitons

References

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