The IEEE
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award is a
Technical Field Award that was established by the
IEEE
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Board of Directors in 2008. This award may be presented for outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear and plasma sciences and engineering.
This award may be presented to an individual, individuals on a team, or up to three multiple recipients.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
This award was presented for the first time in 2011. The recipients include the following:
* 2021: Michel Defrise
* 2020: Michael A. Lieberman
* 2019:
Sanjiv "Sam" Gambhir
* 2018:
David R. Nygren
David Robert Nygren (born December 30, 1938) is a particle physicist known for his invention of the time projection chamber. He is a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington now. He has worked at Lawrence ...
, an American particle physicist, for "pioneering radiation detector developments, enabling major discoveries in diverse areas of science."
* 2017:
Chandrashekhar J. Joshi, an American experimental plasma physicist, for "groundbreaking contributions to and leadership in the field of plasma particle accelerators."
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* 2016:
Simon R. Cherry, an American positron emission tomography expert and biomedical engineer, for "contributions to the development and application of in vivo molecular imaging systems."
* 2015:
Noah Hershkowitz
Noah Hershkowitz (August 16, 1941 – November 13, 2020) was an American experimental plasma physicist. He was known for his pioneering research on the understanding of plasma sheaths, solitons and double layers in plasmas, as well as the develo ...
, an American
plasma physicist, for "innovative research and inspiring education in basic and applied plasma science."
* 2014: Three winners, for "developing maximum-likelihood image reconstruction in emission tomography leading to its widespread and effective use in healthcare."
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H. Malcolm Hudson, an Australian mathematician and statistics professor at
Macquarie University in
New South Wales
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Brian F. Hutton, Professor of Medical Physics in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Science at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine at the
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Lawrence A. Shepp, posthumously, an American mathematician.
* 2013:
Veljko Radeka, a Croatian-American engineer and
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base and Japanese internment c ...
research scientist, for "the development of new radiation detectors, electronics, and systems that operate at the fundamental limits of performance, enabling discoveries in many areas of science."
* 2012:
Gennady Andreevich Mesyats, a Soviet-born physicist, for "founding the field of nanosecond pulsed power and for seminal contributions to the physics of vacuum breakdown at high power levels."
* 2011:
Ned Birdsall, an American experimental plasma physicist, for "theoretical investigations and fundamental discoveries involving microwave tubes, electron beam physics and particle-in-cell simulation of plasma physics."
References
External links
IEEE Medals, Technical Field Awards, and RecognitionsList of recipients of the IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award
Engineering awards
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