The Three Physicists Prize (, ) is a

physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

prize awarded by the

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(ENS) in

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and the Eugène Bloch Foundation. It is named in honour of the

physicists A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

Henri Abraham Henri Abraham (12 July 1868–22 December 1943) was a French physicist who made important contributions to the science of radio waves. He performed some of the first measurements of the propagation velocity of radio waves, helped develop France's ...

, Eugene Bloch and Georges Bruhat, who were successive directors of the physics laboratory at the ENS and all of whom were murdered in

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between 1943 and 1945. The prize was established by Bloch's widow.

Winners

* 1951 Jean Cabannes * 1952 Maurice Bayen * 1953 Gustave Ribaud * 1954 Maurice Ponte * 1955 ''not awarded'' * 1956

Nevill Francis Mott Sir Nevill Francis Mott (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductor ...

* 1957 H. B. G. Casimir * 1958

J. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer ; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physics, theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World ...

* 1959 André Danjon * 1960 Gaston Dupouy * 1961 Max Morand * 1962 Jean Weigle * 1963

Louis Néel Louis Eugène Félix Néel (; 22 November 1904 – 17 November 2000) was a French physicist born in Lyon who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his studies of the magnetic properties of solids. Biography Néel studied at the Lyc ...

* 1964 André Lallemand * 1965

Alfred Kastler Alfred Kastler (; 3 May 1902 – 7 January 1984) was a German-born French physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He is known for the development of optical pumping. Biography Kastler was born in Guebwiller (Alsace, at the time part of the Germ ...

* 1966 Francis Perrin * 1967 Pierre Auger * 1968 Jean-François Denisse * 1969 Jean-Claude Pecker * 1970 Albert Kirrmann * 1971 Jean Coulomb * 1972 André Guinier * 1973 Pierre Grivet * 1974 Jean Rösch * 1975 Jean Brossel * 1976 Pierre Jacquinot * 1977 André Maréchal * 1978 Marcel Rouault * 1979 Michel Soutif * 1980 Robert Klapisch * 1981 Evry Schatzman * 1982 Philippe Nozières * 1983 Bernard Cagnac * 1984 Raimond Castaing * 1985 Sylvain Liberman * 1986

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and magnetic trap (atoms), trapping atoms. Currentl ...

* 1987 Jacques Friedel * 1988 Philippe Meyer * 1989

Édouard Brézin Édouard Brézin (; born 1 December 1938 Paris) is a French theoretical physicist. He is professor at Université Paris 6, working at the laboratory for theoretical physics (LPT) of the École Normale Supérieure since 1986. Biography Brézin ...

* 1990 Claude Bouchiat * 1991 Julien Bok * 1992 Michel Davier * 1993 Jean-Louis Steinberg * 1994 Jacques Dupont-Roc * 1995 Bernard Jancovici * 1996 Jean-Claude Le Guillou * 1997 Claire Lhuillier * 1998 Albert Libchaber * 1999 Claudette Rigaux * 2000

Franck Laloë Franck Laloë (born May 28, 1940) is a French quantum physicist, author, and open archive initiator. He is emeritus research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Education and career Laloë was born in Rabat, ...

* 2001 Gérald Bastard * 2002 Walter Kohn * 2003 Pierre Encrenaz * 2004 Christophe Salomon * 2005 André Neveu * 2006 Yves Couder * 2007

Sébastien Balibar Sébastien Balibar (born 14 October 1947 in Tours) is a French physicist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. On May 1, 2017, he signed with other scientists a text calling for a vote in favor of Emmanuel Macron during the second round ...

* 2008 Stéphan Fauve * 2009 Jean-Loup Puget * 2010 Jean Dalibard * 2011

Giorgio Parisi Giorgio Parisi (born 4 August 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods ...

* 2012 Françoise Combes * 2013 Jean Iliopoulos * 2014 François Biraben * 2015

Bernard Derrida Bernard Derrida (; born 1952) is a French theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work in statistical mechanics, and is the eponym of ''Derrida plots'', an analytical technique for characterising differences between Boolean networks. Bio ...

* 2016 Vincent Croquette * 2017 Michel Brune * 2018 Edith Falgarone * 2019 Vincent Hakim . * 2020 Bernard Placais * 2021 Marc Mézard * 2022 Frédéric Chevy * 2024 Yves Pomeau

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