Lars Onsager Prize

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The Lars Onsager Prize is a prize in theoretical statistical physics awarded annually by the American Physical Society. Prize recipients receive a medal, certificate, and $10,000. [1] It was established in 1993 by Drs. Russell and Marian Donnelly [2] in memory of Lars Onsager. [1] [3]

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Recipients

YearRecipients
1995 Michael E. Fisher
1997 Robert Kraichnan
1998 Leo Kadanoff
1999 Chen Ning Yang [4]
2000 David J. Thouless
John M. Kosterlitz
2001 Bertrand Halperin
2002 Anatoly Larkin
2003 Pierre Hohenberg
2004 John Cardy
2005 Valery Pokrovsky
2006 Rodney Baxter
2007 A. Brooks Harris
2008 [5] [6] Christopher Pethick
Gordon Baym
Tin-Lun Ho
2009 B. Sriram Shastry [3]
2010 Daniel Friedan
Stephen Shenker
2011 [7] Alexander Belavin
Alexander Zamolodchikov
Alexander Polyakov
2012 Ian Affleck [8]
2013 Daniel S. Fisher
2014 Grigory E. Volovik
Vladimir P. Mineev
2015 Franz Wegner
2016 Marc Mézard
Giorgio Parisi
Riccardo Zecchina  [ it ]
2017 Natan Andrei
Paul Wiegmann
2018 Subir Sachdev [9]
2019 Christopher Jarzynski
2020 [10] [11] Tamás Vicsek
Yuhai Tu  [ de ]
John Toner
2021 Lev Pitaevskii [12]
2022 Boris Altshuler
David A. Huse
Igor Aleiner  [ de ]
2023 Peter Hänggi
2024 Jacques Prost [13]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 "Lars Onsager Prize". American Physical Society.
  2. "Russell J. Donnelly". Archived from the original on 2013-11-23. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
  3. 1 2 "Indian physicist wins Lars Onsager prize". IBN Live. Archived from the original on 2013-01-27.
  4. "Chen-Ning Yang, the 'luckiest' physicist". ECNS.cn.
  5. "Christopher Pethick wins Onsager Prize". Niels Bohr Institute.
  6. "Jason Ho to Receive Onsager Prize". Ohio State university. Archived from the original on 2011-01-03.
  7. "FACULTY AWARD: American Physical Society honors four faculty". Princeton University.
  8. "Affleck is awarded the Lars Onsager prize". UBC.
  9. "2018 Lars Onsager Prize Recipient".
  10. "Vicsek Tamás, az MTA rendes tagja elnyerte az Onsager-díjat". MTA.hu. September 25, 2019.
  11. "Spring 2020 American Physical Society prizes and awards announced". EurekAlert!.
  12. "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org.
  13. https://engage.aps.org/gsnp/blogs/emma-rosa-zajdela/2023/10/25/congratulations-to-the-2024-onsager-prize-recipie [ bare URL ]


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