The Wohlfarth Memorial Lecture, and the Wohlfarth Lectureship, is a lecture and prize given at the UK-based Institute of Physics' annual Magnetism Conference. It is named after Professor Erich Peter Wohlfarth, in honour of his "outstanding contribution [...] to the field of magnetism". [1] It has been awarded since 1989.
Year | Name | Institution | Lecture Title | Conference | Location |
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2024 | Karin Everschor-Sitte | University of Duisburg-Essen | "Let’s TWIST Again: Topological Whirls In SpinTronics" | Magnetism 2024 | Loughborough |
2023 | Chiara Ciccarelli | University of Cambridge | "Extracting spin from an antiferromagnet at picosecond timescales" | Magnetism 2023 | Manchester |
2022 | Peter Wadley | University of Nottingham | "Controlling and utilising antiferromagnetic order" | Magnetism 2022 | York |
2021 | Volodymyr Kruglyak | University of Exeter | "Magnonics: Of Spins and Waves" | Magnetism 2021 | Virtual |
2020 | Aurelien Manchon | Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM | "Spin-orbit physics at magnetic interfaces" | Magnetism 2020 | Virtual |
2019 | Julie Grollier | CRNS/Thales France | "Neuromorphic computing with spintronic nano-oscillators" | Magnetism 2019 | Leeds |
2018 | Gino Hrkac | University of Exeter | "ATOMs - Atomistic to Micromagnetic modelling: from permanent magnets to magnetic hybrid materials" | Magnetism 2018 | Manchester |
2017 | Andre Thiaville | University of Paris-Sud | "New Magnetic Materials Exploiting Chiral Interactions" | Magnetism 2017 | York |
2016 | Jöerg Wunderlich | Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory | "Antiferromagnetic spintronics: Large magnitude magneto-resistance effects and current controlled switching" | Magnetism 2016 | Sheffield |
2015 | Laura Heyderman | ETH Zurich/Paul Scherrer Institute | "Shedding light on artificial ferroic systems" | Magnetism 2015 | Leeds |
2014 | Atsufumi Hirohata | University of York | "Nano-Spintronic Devices" | Magnetism 2014 | Manchester |
2012 | Steven Bramwell | University College London | |||
2011 | Christopher Marrows | University of Leeds | |||
2010 | Guido Meier | University of Hamburg | |||
2009 | Stephen Blundell | University of Oxford | |||
2008 | Matthias Bode | University of Hamburg/Argonne National Laboratory | |||
2007 | Caroline Ross | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||
2006 | Stuart Parkin | IBM | |||
2005 | Thomas Schrefl | University of Sheffield | |||
2004 | Bob Stamps | University of Western Australia | |||
2003 | Amanda Petford-Long | University of Oxford | |||
2002 | Wolfgang Wernsdorfer | Lab Louis Néel, Grenoble | |||
2000 | Russell Cowburn | Durham University | |||
1999 | Tony Bland | University of Cambridge | |||
1998 | Stephen Hayden | University of Bristol | |||
1997 | Mary Doerner | IBM Almaden | |||
1996 | David Awschalom | University of California, Santa Barbara | |||
1995 | Dominique Givord | Lab Louis Néel, Grenoble | |||
1994 | Roy Chantrell | Bangor University | |||
1993 | Peter Grünberg | Forschungszentrum Jülich | |||
1992 | Rolf Allenspach | IBM Research – Zurich | |||
1990 | R. Coehoorn | Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven | |||
1989 | Piers Coleman | Rutgers University |
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