FRITZ LONDON MEMORIAL PRIZE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND PREVIOUS WINNERS:

The Fritz London Prize was created to recognize scientists who made outstanding contributions to the advances of the field of Low Temperature Physics. It is traditionally awarded in the first session of the International Low Temperature Conference, which is sponsored by the IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) and was first awarded in 1957. The bylaws presently used by the Fritz London Prize committee were drafted in 1972 by John Bardeen, winner of two Nobel prizes and of the '62 F. London Prize, and have been subsequently brought up to date.

The London Prize was first funded by grants from the A.D. Little Company that made the Collins helium liquefiers. The funding on a regular basis dates back to 1972 when John Bardeen gave his portion of the Nobel Prize to Duke University for an endowment, called "the Fritz London Fund".This was to provide support for the annual Fritz London lecture and for the London Prize, to be awarded at each international LT meeting. In 1994, a second endowment was created at Duke University from a) the balance of funds remaining from the LT20 Conference in Oregon, remitted by Russell Donnelly, and b) a gift from Horst Meyer. This second endowment is called "Fritz London Prize endowment" and is solely intended for the London Prize. Further gifts to this endowment were made in 2000 and 2006 by the Organizers of the LT22, LT24 and LT25 Conferences in Helsinki (Finland), Orlando (Florida, USA) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

Furthermore Oxford Instruments Inc. in Abingdon, UK, made generous gifts in cash for all the London prizes awarded since 1996.

The previous winners of the F. London prize were :

'57 Nicholas Kürti

'60 Lev D. Landau

'62 John Bardeen

'64 David Schoenberg

'66 Cornelius G. Gorter

'68 William M. Fairbank

'70 Brian Josephson

'72 Alexei Abrikosov

'75 John Wheatley

'78 Guenter Ahlers, William McMillan, John M. Rowell

'81 John D. Reppy, Anthony J. Leggett, Isidor Rudnick

'84 Werner Buckel, Olli V. Lounasmaa, David J. Thouless

'87 K. Alex Müller&Johannes G. Bednorz, Jun Kondo, John Clarke

'90 Robert C. Dynes, Pierre C. Hohenberg, Anatoli I. Larkin

'93 Albert Schmid, Dennis Greywall, Horst Meyer

'96 Moses H.W. Chan, Carl Wieman, Eric A. Cornell

'99 Douglas F. Brewer, Matti Krusius, Wolfgang Ketterle

'02 Russell J. Donnelly, Walter N. Hardy, Allen M. Goldman

'05 Sébastien Balibar, J.C. Séamus Davis, Richard Packard

'08 Yuriy M. Bunkov, Vladimir V. Dmitriev, Igor A. Fomin