Hannes Alfvén Prize
The Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society for Outstanding Contributions to Plasma Physics, established in 2000, is awarded each year at the European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics.
Prize winners
| Year | Winner(s) | Award statement |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Radu Balescu | 2000 |
| 2001 | Vitaly Shafranov | 2001 |
| 2002 | Marshall N. Rosenbluth | 2002 |
| 2003 | Vladimir Evgenievitch Fortov | 2003 |
| 2004 | J W Connor, R J Hastie, and J B Taylor | 2004 |
| 2005 | Malcolm Haines, Tom Sanford, and Valentin Smirnov | 2005 |
| 2006 | Paul-Henri Rebut | 2006 |
| 2007 | Friedrich Wagner | 2007 |
| 2008 | Liu Chen | 2008 |
| 2009 | Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn | 2009 |
| 2010 | Allen Boozer and Jürgen Nührenberg | 2010 |
| 2011 | Patrick Diamond, Akira Hasegawa, and Kunioki Mima | 2011[1] |
Notes
- ↑ The EPS Alfvén Prize 2011 (in alphabetic order): Prof. Dr. Patrick Diamond (University of California, United States of America; National Fusion Research Institute, Korea), Prof. Dr. Akira Hasegawa (Osaka University, Japan), Prof Dr. Kunioki Mima (Osaka University, Japan), "for laying the foundations of modern numerical transport simulations and key contributions on self-generated zonal flows and flow shear decorrelation mechanisms which form the basis of modern turbulence in plasmas".