Hannes Alfvén Prize

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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

Hannes Alfvén
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

  1. 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".