Buckley Prize
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The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize is an annual award given by the American Physical Society
"to recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics
." It was endowed by AT&T Bell Laboratories as a means of recognizing outstanding scientific work. The prize is named in honor of Oliver E. Buckley, a former president of Bell Labs
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The prize is normally awarded to one person but may be shared if multiple recipients contributed to the same accomplishments. Nominations are active for three years. The prize was endowed in 1952 and first awarded in 1953.
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...
"to recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics
Condensed matter physics
Condensed matter physics deals with the physical properties of condensed phases of matter. These properties appear when a number of atoms at the supramolecular and macromolecular scale interact strongly and adhere to each other or are otherwise highly concentrated in a system. The most familiar...
." It was endowed by AT&T Bell Laboratories as a means of recognizing outstanding scientific work. The prize is named in honor of Oliver E. Buckley, a former president of Bell Labs
Bell Labs
Bell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...
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The prize is normally awarded to one person but may be shared if multiple recipients contributed to the same accomplishments. Nominations are active for three years. The prize was endowed in 1952 and first awarded in 1953.
Past winners
- 2012 Charles L. Kane, Laurens W. Molenkamp and Shoucheng Zhang
- 2011 Juan Carlos CampuzanoJuan Carlos CampuzanoJuan Carlos Campuzano is a Paraguayan American physicist and an expert in high-temperature superconductivity researchers. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, and a Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Illinois at Chicago...
, Peter Johnson, Zhi-Xun Shen - 2010 Alan Mackay, Dov Levine, Paul SteinhardtPaul SteinhardtPaul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University and a professor of theoretical physics. He received his B.S. at the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard University...
- 2009 Jagadeesh MooderaJagadeesh MooderaJagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera is an American physicist of Indian origin and is senior research scientist at MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory. In 1994 he led an MIT research team in the discovery of a practical way to implement room temperature magnetic tunnel junction using a magnetic stack...
, Paul Tedrow, Robert Meservey, Terunobu Miyazaki - 2008 Mildred DresselhausMildred DresselhausMildred S. Dresselhaus is an Institute Professor and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
- 2007 James P. Eisenstein, Steven M. Girvin, and Allan H. MacDonald
- 2006 Noel A. Clark and Robert Meyer
- 2005 David AwschalomDavid AwschalomDavid D. Awschalom is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors. Awschalom was awarded the 2005 Oliver E Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society, and the 2005 Agilent Europhysics Prize by the European Physical Society...
, Myriam SarachikMyriam SarachikMyriam Sarachik is a physicist and recipient of the Buckley Prize in 2005. She is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at The City College of New York since 1995 and has taught there since 1964. In 2008 she has been elected to the governing council of the National Academy of Sciences. She is an...
and Gabriel Aeppli - 2004 Tom C. LubenskyTom LubenskyTom C. Lubensky is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Mary Amanda Wood professor of physics and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania...
and David R. Nelson - 2003 Boris AltshulerBoris AltshulerBoris Altshuler is a professor of physics at Columbia University. His specialty is theoretical condensed matter physics....
- 2002 Jainendra JainJainendra K. JainJainendra K. Jain is an Indian American physicist, who is currently the Erwin W. Mueller Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University. Jain is known for his theoretical work on quantum many body systems, most notably for postulating Composite fermions....
, Nicholas ReadNicholas ReadNicholas Read is an American physicist, noted for his work on strongly interacting quantum many-body systems.-Biography:Read was born in Britain in 1958 and did his undergraduate education at the Cambridge University. He completed his PhD at the Imperial College, London after which he moved to the...
and Robert Willett - 2001 Alan Harold Luther; Victor John Emery
- 2000 Gerald. J. Dolan; Theodore. A. Fulton; Marc A. KastnerMarc A. KastnerMarc A. Kastner is an American physicist and Donner Professor of Science and Dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.- Early years :...
- 1999 Sidney R. Nagel
- 1998 Dale J. van Harlingen; Donald M. Ginsberg; John R. KirtleyJohn R. KirtleyJohn Robert Kirtley is an American condensed matter physicist and a Consulting Professor at the Center for Probing the Nanoscale in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He shared the 1998 Oliver E...
; Chang C. Tsuei - 1997 James S. LangerJames S. LangerJames S. Langer is a Professor of Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934, Langer attended Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Birmingham, earning a B.A. in physics from the former in 1955 and a Ph.D. in mathematical...
- 1996 Charles Pence SlichterCharles Pence SlichterCharles Pence Slichter is an American physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance and superconductivity....
- 1995 Rolf LandauerRolf LandauerRolf William Landauer was an IBM physicist who in 1961 argued that when information is lost in an irreversible circuit, the information becomes entropy and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat...
- 1994 Aron Pinczuk
- 1993 F. Duncan M. Haldane
- 1992 Richard A. Webb
- 1991 Patrick A. LeePatrick A. LeePatrick A. Lee is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .-Awards:*Dirac Medal, 2005 *Oliver Buckley Prize -Publications:...
- 1990 David EdwardsDavid Edwards-Music:*David Edwards , lead singer of the Welsh band Datblygu*David Eugene Edwards, American musician; lead singer of Woven Hand and 16 Horsepower*Dave Edwards , former big band musician from The Lawrence Welk Show...
- 1989 Hellmut FritzscheHellmut FritzscheHellmut Fritzsche is a German-American solid-state physicist.After receiving his Diplom from the University of Göttingen in 1952, Fritzsche went to the USA. In 1952 he earned his PhD from Purdue University, where he in the same year became an instructor and in 1955 assistant professor...
- 1988 Frank F. Fang, Alan B. Fowler, and Phillip J. Stiles
- 1987 Robert J. Birgeneau
- 1986 Robert B. LaughlinRobert B. LaughlinRobert Betts Laughlin is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall...
- 1985 Robert O. Pohl
- 1984 Daniel C. TsuiDaniel C. TsuiDaniel Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics...
, Horst L. Stormer, and A. C. Gossard - 1983 Alan J. HeegerAlan J. HeegerAlan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa to a Jewish family. He earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1957, and a Ph.D in physics from the University of California,...
- 1982 Bertrand I. Halperin
- 1981 David M. Lee, Robert C. RichardsonRobert Coleman RichardsonRobert Coleman Richardson is an American experimental physicist whose area of research includes sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3...
and Douglas D. OsheroffDouglas D. OsheroffDouglas Dean Osheroff is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C... - 1980 Dean E. Eastman and William E. Spicer
- 1979 Marvin L. CohenMarvin L. CohenMarvin L. Cohen is a Canadian-born American physicist. He is a professor of condensed matter physics and materials science at the University of California, Berkeley. Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin studied under John D. Joannopoulos, a student of Cohen's.Cohen received his PhD from the...
- 1978 George D. Watkins
- 1977 Leo P. Kadanoff
- 1976 George FeherGeorge FeherGeorge Feher is an American biophysicist working at the University of California, San Diego.- Birth and education :George Feher was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924. When the Nazis came in, he made his way overland to Israel He worked for the Jewish underground for Israel Independence...
- 1975 Albert W. Overhauser
- 1974 Michael TinkhamMichael TinkhamMichael Tinkham was an American physicist.-Professional life:Michael Tinkham was Rumford Research Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Research Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University...
- 1973 Gen Shirane
- 1972 James C. Phillips
- 1971 Erwin HahnErwin HahnErwin L. Hahn is a U.S. physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance . In 1950 he discovered the spin echo....
- 1970 T. H. Geballe and B. T. Matthias
- 1969 J. J. Hopfield and D. G. Thomas
- 1968 J. Robert Schrieffer
- 1967 Harry G. Drickamer
- 1966 Theodore H. Maiman
- 1965 Ivar GiaeverIvar GiaeverIvar Giaever is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids". Giaever's share of the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in ......
- 1964 Philip W. Anderson
- 1963 William M. FairbankWilliam M. FairbankWilliam Martin Fairbank is an American physicist known in particular for his work on liquid helium....
- 1962 Bertram N. Brockhouse
- 1961 Walter KohnWalter KohnWalter Kohn is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist.He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials...
- 1960 Benjamin Lax
- 1959 Conyers HerringConyers HerringConyers Herring was an American physicist. He was Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University and the Wolf Prize in Physics recipient in 1984/5.-Academic career:...
- 1958 Nicolaas BloembergenNicolaas BloembergenNicolaas Bloembergen is a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate.He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Leiden in 1948; while pursuing his PhD at Harvard, Bloembergen also worked part-time as a graduate research assistant for Edward Mills Purcell at the MIT Radiation Laboratory...
- 1957 Charles KittelCharles KittelCharles Kittel is an American physicist. He was a Professor at University of California, Berkeley from 1951 and has been Professor Emeritus since 1978.- Life and work :...
- 1956 Clifford G. Shull
- 1955 LeRoy ApkerLeRoy ApkerLeRoy W. Apker was an American experimental physicist. Along with his colleagues E. A. Taft and Jean Dickey, he studied the photoelectric emission of electrons from semiconductors and discovered the phenomenon of exciton-induced photoemission in potassium iodide. In 1955, he received the Oliver E...
- 1954 John BardeenJohn BardeenJohn Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a...
- 1953 William ShockleyWilliam ShockleyWilliam Bradford Shockley Jr. was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s...