H. Kamerlingh-Onnes Prize 2006

The 8th International Conference on
Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity
and High Temperature Superconductors (M2S-HTSC-VIII),
Dresden, Germany (July 9 to July 14, 2006).

		Prize receipients M2S-HTSC-VIII 2006
	The Award Committees of the 8th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors (M2S-HTSC VIII) are pleased to announce the following International Prizes for outstanding contributions in the field of superconductivity.

	John Bardeen Prize
	The John Bardeen Prize is awarded for theoretical work that has provided significant insights on the nature of superconductivity and has led to verifiable predictions. It is sponsored by the Dresdner Bank The prize committee of the M2S-HTSC VIII (Chair: Peter Fulde, Dresden) is privileged to present the John Bardeen Prize 2006 to Alexander Andreev (Moscow), Kazumi Maki (Los Angeles), and Douglas Scalapino (Santa Barbara) for their work on quasiparticles in superconductors: to A. Andreev for the prediction of Andreev scattering, to K. Maki for his work on gapless quasiparticle excitations due to pair-breaking and for elucidating the role of fluctuations and to D. Scalapino for his contributions to life time effects of quasiparticles and how strong correlations affect their properties.

		H. Kamerlingh Onnes Prize
	The H. Kamerlingh Onnes Prize is awarded for outstanding experiments which illuminate the nature of superconductivity other than materials. Sponsored by Elsevier Science, publisher of PHYSICA C Superconductivity and Applications. The prize committee of the M2S-HTSC VIII (Chair P. Kes, Leiden) is privileged to present the H. Kamerlingh Onnes Prize to N. Phuan Ong (Princeton), Hidenori Takagi (Tokyo), and Shin-ichi Uchida (Tokyo) for pioneering and seminal transport experiments which illuminated the unconventional nature of the metallic state of high temperature superconducting cuprates.

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Photos courtesy Wolfram Jacob, IFW Dresden

Left to right: Peter Kes, Shin-ichi Uchida, Hidenori Takagi and N. Phuan Ong

		Bernd T. Matthias Price
	The Bernd T. Matthias Price is awarded in recognition of innovative contributions to the material aspects of superconductivity. Sponsored by the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston. The prize committee of the M2S-HTSC VIII (Chair: C.W. Chu, Hongkong) is privileged to present the Bernd T. Matthias Prize to Frank Steglich (Dresden) for his 1979 discovery of CeCu2Si2 and the associated novel electronic state that has inaugurated an exciting field of heavy fermion physics.

		Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize
	The Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize is named after Professor Nicholas Kurti who is known for his distinguished work in ultra-low temperature physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University. The award is intended to recognise and promote outstanding achievements of young scientists in the field of physical sciences research, to support their career development. The prize is sponsored by Oxford Instruments. The prize committee of the Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize (Chair J. Flouquet, Grenoble) is privileged to present the Prize to Andreas Wallraff (Zürich) for his pioneering work on quantum information processing using superconducting circuits.