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Hannes Alfvén Prize

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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."

It is named after the Swedish physicist Hannes Alfvén.

List of winners

  • 2000: Radu Bălescu
  • 2001: Vitaly Shafranov
  • 2002: Marshall Rosenbluth
  • 2003: Vladimir Evgenievitch Fortov
  • 2004: J W Connor, R J Hastie, J B Taylor
  • 2005: Malcolm Haines, Tom Sanford, Valentin Smirnov
  • 2006: Paul-Henri Rebut
  • 2007: Friedrich Wagner
  • 2008: Liu Chen
  • 2009: Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn
  • 2010: Allen Boozer, Jürgen Nührenberg
  • 2011: Patrick Diamond, Akira Hasegawa, Kunioki Mima
  • 2012: Eugene N. Parker
  • 2013: Miklos Porkolab of MIT
  • 2014: Patrick Mora of Ecole Polytechnique
  • 2015: Nathaniel J. Fisch of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
  • References

    Hannes Alfvén Prize Wikipedia