The Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize was established in 2000, under the sponsorship of Elsevier , by the organizers of the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity (MS). The prize is named in honor of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes , who discovered superconductivity in 1911. At each conference, the prize, which consists of 7500 € and a certificate, is presented to one or more physicists. If there are two or more recipients they share the money. The prize "recognizes outstanding experiments which illuminate the nature of superconductivity other than materials". The winners are selected by the members of the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize Committee, appointed by the conference organizers.
6-430: The prize was first awarded in 2000 at the 6th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors: The new H. Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for outstanding experiments that illuminate the nature of superconductivity other than materials, was established by Elsevier Science, publisher of Physica C-Superconductivity and its Applications . The first H. Kamerlingh Onnes Prize
12-819: Is chief scientist at SLAC (at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource , SSRL), and since 2006 he is founding director of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES). Furthermore, 2005 to 2008 he was director of the Geballe Laboratory for Advance Materials. He developed several precision instruments, e.g. for synchrotron radiation sources, helium lamps for UV and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and he used these to study high-temperature superconductors. For example, his group in 2010 obtained convincing evidence that
18-723: The pseudogap phase of the cuprate high-temperature superconductors, which was discovered in the mid 1990s, indeed is an independent phase (independent from the metallic and superconducting phases), which reaches into the superconducting phase. Besides ARPES techniques in the UV regime, he also employs x-ray diffraction methods. He developed near-field microwave microscopy (scanning microwave impedance microscopy) based on atomic force microscopes for studies on mesoscopic length scales, e.g. nanostructured materials. Using this, he addresses applications such as new techniques for solar collectors (Photo Enhanced Thermionic Emission, PETE). In 1999 he gave
24-816: The APS Centennial lecture and in 2003 was elected fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), In 2000 he received the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize and in 2009 the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award , and 2011 together with Peter Johnson the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize . In 2015 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In 2017, Shen was elected as a foreign member of
30-432: Was awarded to Zhi-Xun Shen . The prize is "one of the leading awards for experimental research in superconductivity." The following are recipients: Zhi-Xun Shen Zhi-Xun Shen ( Chinese : 沈志勋 ; born July 1962) is a Chinese-American experimental and solid state physicist who is a professor at Stanford University . He is particularly noted for his ARPES studies on high-temperature superconductors . Shen
36-675: Was born in July 1962 in Zhejiang , China. He graduated from Fudan University with a B.S. in 1983, and went to the United States through the CUSPEA program organized by T. D. Lee . He earned his M.S. degree in 1985 at Rutgers University . In 1989 he received a PhD in applied physics from Stanford University . In 1991 he became assistant professor, in 1996 associate professor, and in 2000 full professor at Stanford University. Since 2010 he
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