Hannes Alfvén Prize

The Hannes Alfvén Prize is a prize established by the European Physical Society (EPS) Plasma Physics Division in 2000. The Prize is awarded annually by the European Physical Society at the EPS Conference on Plasma Physics for outstanding work in the field of plasma physics: "for achievements which have shaped the plasma physics field or are expected to do so in future."[1]

Hannes Alfvén Prize
CountryEurope
Presented byPlasma Physics Division, European Physical Society
First awarded2000
Websiteplasma.ciemat.es/eps/awards/alfven-prize

It is named after the Swedish physicist Hannes Alfvén.

List of winners
Year Recipient Institution Citation Ref.
2000 Radu Bălescu Université Libre de Bruxelles "for his outstanding scientific work in the field of statistical physics of charged particles and of controlled fusion." [2]
2001 Vitaly Shafranov Kurchatov Institute "for his theoretical research on plasma equilibrium and stability and his outstanding contribution to the physics of magnetically confined toroidal plasmas." [3]
2002 Marshall Rosenbluth "for his seminal theoretical contributions since the earliest days of fusion research in virtually all aspects of fusion plasma sciences which now form the basis of modern plasma physics."
2003 Vladimir Evgenievitch Fortov "for his seminal contributions in the area of non-ideal plasmas and strongly coupled Coulomb systems, and for his pioneering work on the generation and investigation of plasmas under extreme conditions." [4]
2004 John W. Connor "for their seminal contributions to a wide range of issues of fundamental importance to the success of magnetic confinement fusion, including: the development of gyro-kinetic theory; the prediction of the bootstrap current; dimensionless scaling laws; pressure-limiting instabilities, and micro-stability and transport theory." [5]
Robert J. Hastie
John B. Taylor
2005 Malcolm Haines "for their major contributions to the development of the multi-wire array in Z-pinch pulse-power physics; the x-ray yield was rapidly increased to the level of 2 MJ starting with pioneering work on the ‘Angara’ facilities in Russia, through the ‘Saturn’ project in the Sandia Laboratories to the present ‘Z’ device also in Sandia, strongly supported by the rapid evolution of the underlying theory of cylindrical wire-array liner compression." [6]
Tom Sanford
Valentin Smirnov
2006 Paul-Henri Rebut "for his pioneering contributions to many topics in magnetic confinement theory and in the design of tokamak devices, many of which are now implemented in the ITER design." [7]
2007 Friedrich Wagner Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics "for his continuing outstanding contributions to research into fusion by magnetic confinement." [8]
2008 Liu Chen "for his many seminal works on Alfvén wave physics in both laboratory and space plasmas, for his continuing contribution of new ideas which have fostered creativity and promoted cross-fertilization in both these areas of research, and for his fundamental contributions in educating a new generation of researchers for which he is an example to emulate." [9]
2009 Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics "for his seminal theoretical work in the fields of inertial confinement fusion (ICF), relativistic laser–plasma interaction and laser wakefield electron acceleration." [10]
2010 Allen Boozer Columbia University "for the formulation and practical application of criteria allowing stellarators to have good fast-particle and neoclassical energy confinement." [11]
Jürgen Nührenberg Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics & University of Griefswald
2011 Patrick Diamond University of California, San Diego "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." [12]
Akira Hasegawa Osaka University
Kunioki Mima The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries
2012 Eugene N. Parker University of Chicago "for his theoretical discovery of the transonically expanding atmosphere in cool stars as a basic phenomenon in the magnetic astrophysical cosmos." [13]
2013 Miklos Porkolab Massachusetts Institute of Technology "for his seminal contributions to the physics of plasma waves and his key role in the development of fusion energy." [14]
2014 Patrick Mora Ecole Polytechnique "for decisive results in the field of laser-produced plasma physics, in particular for illuminating descriptions of laser light absorption in plasmas, electron heat transport in steep temperature gradients and plasma expansion dynamics into vacuum." [15][16]
2015 Nathaniel J. Fisch Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory "for his contributions to the understanding of plasma wave‐particle interactions and their applications to efficiently driving currents with radio‐frequency waves." [17][18]
2016 Sergei Bulanov National Institute of Radiological Sciences & Prokhorov General Physics Institute "for their experimental and theoretical contributions to the development of large-scale next-step devices in high-temperature plasma physics research," [19]
Hartmut Zohm Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
2017 Ksenia Aleksandrovna Razumova Kurchatov Institute "for obtaining, for the first time, a macroscopically stable plasma column in a tokamak configuration; this led to the world-wide programme of experimental exploration and development of the tokamak concept for magnetic confinement fusion." [20]
2018 Tony Bell University of Oxford "for seminal contributions covering cosmic ray acceleration by shocks, magnetic field amplification by cosmic rays, flux limited electron transport, generation of magnetic field by laser‑produced energetic electrons, collimation of electron beams for inertial fusion, prolific production of electron‑positron pairs." [21]
2019 Victor Malka Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée & Weizmann Institute of Science "for major contributions to the development of compact laser-plasma accelerators, and to their innovative applications to science and society, which span ultra-fast phenomena, accelerator physics, medicine, radiobiology, chemistry and material science." [22]
Toshiki Tajima University of California, Irvine "for seminal, broad, and novel contributions to plasma physics and plasma-based accelerator physics, including the concept of laser wakefield acceleration." [22]
2020 Annick Pouquet University of Colorado Boulder "for fundamental contributions to quantifying energy transfer in magneto-fluid turbulence... [which] include predicting the inverse cascade of magnetic helicity, extending the accessible frontier of nonlinear numerical computations, and key steps forward in the analytical theory of turbulence. ... [Pouquet's] work has facilitated remarkable advances in the understanding of turbulence in astrophysical and space plasmas." [23]

See also

References
  1. "European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division Hannes Alfvén Prize" The Plasma Physics Division of EPS
  2. "Introduction: Award of the first Hannes Alfvén Prize of the EPS to Professor Radu Balescu". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 42 (12B). 2000. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/42/12b/002. ISSN 0741-3335.
  3. "Award of the 2001 Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society to Professor Vitaly Shafranov". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 43 (12A). 2001. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/43/12a/002. ISSN 0741-3335.
  4. Wagner, F (2003). "Award of the 2003 Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society to Professor Vladimir Evgenievitch Fortov". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 45 (12A). doi:10.1088/0741-3335/45/12a/e02. ISSN 0741-3335.
  5. Lister, Dr Jo (2004). "Award of the 2004 Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society to J W Connor, R J Hastie and J B Taylor". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 46 (12B). doi:10.1088/0741-3335/46/12b/e02. ISSN 0741-3335.
  6. Lister, Jo (2005). "Award of the 2005 Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society to Malcolm Haines, Tom Sanford and Valentin Smirnov". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 47 (12B). doi:10.1088/0741-3335/47/12b/e02. ISSN 0741-3335.
  7. Lister, Jo (2006). "Laudation for Paul-Henri Rebut: recipient of the 2006 European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division Hannes Alfvén Prize". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 48 (12B). doi:10.1088/0741-3335/48/12b/e02. ISSN 0741-3335.
  8. Lister, Jo (2006). "Laudation for Paul-Henri Rebut: recipient of the 2006 European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division Hannes Alfvén Prize". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 48 (12B). doi:10.1088/0741-3335/48/12b/e02. ISSN 0741-3335.
  9. "Liu Chen: recipient of the 2008 European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division Hannes Alfvén Prize". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 50 (12): 120302. 2008. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/50/12/120302. ISSN 0741-3335.
  10. Jacquemot, Sylvie (2009). "36th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 51 (12): 120201. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/51/12/120201. ISSN 0741-3335.
  11. Mendonça, Tito; Hidalgo, Carlos (2010). "37th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 52 (12): 120301–120301. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/52/12/120301. ISSN 0741-3335.
  12. Stroth, U; Hidalgo, C (2011). "38th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 53 (12): 120201. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/53/12/120201. ISSN 0741-3335.
  13. Fasoli, Ambroglio; Jacquemot, Sylvie; Hidalgo, Carlos (2012). "39th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 54 (12): 120201. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/54/12/120201. ISSN 0741-3335.
  14. "Miklos Porkolab receives Hannes Alfvén Prize". MIT News. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  15. "41st European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics" (pdf (585kb)). Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 57 (2015).
  16. "Report from the EPS Plasma Physics Division: Prizes" (PDF (48KB)). EPS Plasma Physics Division Annual Reports. European Physical Society (EPS). June 2014. The 2014 Hannes Alfvén Prize is awarded to Patrick Mora (Centre de Physique Théorique, Palaiseau, FR) “for decisive results in the field of laser-produced plasma physics, in particular for illuminating descriptions of laser light absorption in plasmas, electron heat transport in steep temperature gradients and plasma expansion dynamics into vacuum”.
  17. "Nat Fisch wins the 2015 Hannes Alfvén Prize from the European Physical Society (EPS)". Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
  18. "Report from the EPS Plasma Physics Division: Prizes" (PDF (195KB)). EPS Plasma Physics Division Annual Reports. European Physical Society (EPS). June 2015. The 2015 Hannes Alfvén Prize is awarded to Nathaniel Fisch (Princeton University, USA) “for fundamental studies of wave‐particle interactions, thereby predicting new plasma phenomena, including ways of driving currents efficiently with radio‐frequency waves”.
  19. Mantica, Paola; Dendy, Richard; Jacquemot, Sylvie (2016). "43rd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 59 (1): 010101. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/59/1/010101. ISSN 0741-3335.
  20. Fajardo, Marta; Dendy, Richard (2017). "44th European physical society conference on plasma physics". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 60 (1): 010101. doi:10.1088/1361-6587/aa9775. ISSN 0741-3335.
  21. "Professor Tony Bell is awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize 2018 - European Physical Society (EPS)".
  22. "Award of EPS Alfven Prize 2019 to Victor Malka and Toshiki Tajima - European Physical Society (EPS)". www.eps.org. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  23. Dendy, Richard (13 Jan 2020). "The EPS Alfvén Prize 2020 is awarded to Dr Annick Pouquet". European Physical Society.
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