Peter Bruggemann, recipient of the 2013 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Plasma Physics.

Professor Aihua Xie [Vice-Chair, IUPAP Commission C6] (left); Dr Marina Kuimova [Imperial College London, UK], recipient of the 2013 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics; and Kenichi Yoshikawa [Chair, IUPAP Commision C6], at the 8th International Conference on Biological Physics in Beijing, China, 18-22 June 2014.  

The 2014 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for AC2: International Commission on General Relativity and Gravitation will be awarded to: Jorge E. Santos [Stanford University and Cambridge University], “For finding the first example of an instability of certain higher-dimensional black holes; for constructing novel anti-de Sitter black hole solutions and using them to explore connections with strongly […]

The 2014 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for C16: Commission on Plasma Physics was awarded during the International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP) in Lisbon, Portugal held on 15th-19th September 2014, to: Wei Lu [Tsinghua University, Beijing, China], “For original contributions to high intensity laser and beam plasma interactions including a theory for nonlinear plasma wakefields […]

The 2014 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for C15: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics was awarded during the International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP) in Washington D.C. held on 7 August 2014, to: Dr Jacob M Taylor [NIST and Joint Quantum Institute], “For groundbreaking advances in the design of compact, practical devices that bridge the classical […]

The 2014 IUPAP Young Scientist Prizes for C11: Particles and Fields were awarded during the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics held from 2-9 July 2014, in Valencia, Spain, to: Claude Duhr [University of Durham, UK],”For his outstanding contributions to elementary particle theory, in particular, to formal developments in quantum field theory and their […]

The 2014 IUPAP Young Scientist Prizes for C8: Semiconductors were awarded during the 32nd International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors held on 10-15 August 2014, Austin, Texas, USA, to: Dr Rahul Nair [The University of Manchester, UK], “For highly innovative work exploring the effects of valley polarization on the optical and optoelectronic properties of […]

The 2012, 2013 and 2014 IUPAP Young Scientist Prizes for C6: Biological Physics were awarded during the 8th IUPAP International Conference of Biological Physics (ICBP 2014) to be held 18-22 June, 2014 in Beijing, China, to the following scientists: 2014 Dr Yi Cao [Nanjing University, China], “For his seminal contributions to development and application of […]

The 2014 IUPAP Young Scientist Prizes for C2: Symbols, Units, Nomenclature, Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants were awarded during the Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM 2014), which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 24 – 29 August 2014, to both: Dr Samuel Lara-Avila [Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden], “For his contribution […]

The 2014 IUPAP Young Scientist Prizes for C5: Low Temperature Physics were awarded during the 27th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT27) held from  6–13 August 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to: Cory R. Dean [The City College of New York, USA], “For his development of graphene on boron nitride and subsequent discovery of the […]