2008 Professor Denis Weaire
Trinity College, Dublin
For his creative contributions to condensed matter research which range over the electronic properties of metals
and semiconductors, the structure of amorphous solids and the physics of foams. Full citation
2007 Jean-Pierre Hulin
FAST Laboratory, associated to CNRS and to the Pierre et Marie Curie and Paris-Sud Universities
For his contribution to the physics of mixing and flows in porous materials.
2006 Julia Higgins
Imperial College, London
For her many and impressive contributions to the field of polymer science, in particular for the application of
scattering techniques using both neutrons and light.
2005 Philippe Monod
Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle de la Ville de Paris
For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of highly correlated electrons in condensed matter.
2004 Adrian F G Wyatt
2003 Catherine Brechignac
2002 John Bernard Pethica
2001 Pierre Coullet
2000 Frank Henry Read
1999 Oriol Bohigas
1998 William Gelletly
1997 Jean-Pierre Briand
1996 John Wickham Steeds
1995 Pierre Léna
1994 Lawrence John Challis
1993 David Ruelle
1992 Donald Hill Perkins
1991 Alain Aspect
1990 Roger Cowley
1989 Eric Varoquaux
1988 Peter Hirsch
1986 Gareth Gwyn Roberts
1985 Denis Jérome
1984 Brebis Bleaney
1983 Gerard Toulouse
1982 Raymond Hide
1981 René Turlay
1980 David James Thouless
1979 André Blandin
1978 William Frank Vinen
1977 Maurice Goldman
1976 Harry Elliot
1975 Evry Schatzman
1974 Philippe Nozières and Antony Hewish
1973 Brian David Josephson
1972 Lionel Solomon
1971 Dennis Gabor
1970 Pierre Connes
1969 Alan Howard Cottrell
1968 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1967 Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn
1966 Raymond Castaing
1965 Martin Ryle
1964 Jacques Friedel
1963 Frederick Charles Frank
1962 Jean-François Denisse
1961 Alfred Brian Pippard
1960 Jean Brossel
1959 Robert Hanbury Brown
1958 Anatole Abragam
1957 Denys Haigh Wilkinson
1956 Jean Paul Mathieu
1955 Nicholas Kurti
1954 Alfred Kastler
1953 John Ashworth Ratcliffe
1952 Louis Néel
1951 Thomas Ralph Merton
1950 Pierre Jacquinot
1949 Leslie Fleetwood Bates
1948 Yves Rocard
1947 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
1946 Charles Sadron
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