Boltzmann Medal

The Boltzmann Medal (or Boltzmann Award) is the most important prize awarded to physicists that obtain new results concerning statistical mechanics; it is named after the celebrated physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. The Boltzmann Medal is awarded once every three years by the Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, during a plenary conference concerning statistical physics.

The award consists of a gilded medal; its front carries the inscription Ludwig Boltzmann, 1844--1906.

Winners

All the winners are influential physicists or mathematicians whose contribution to statistical physics have been relevant in the past decades.

2010 John Cardy and Bernard Derrida
2007 Kurt Binder and Giovanni Gallavotti
2004 E.G.D. Cohen and H. Eugene Stanley
2001 Berni Alder and Kyozi Kawasaki
1998 Elliott Lieb and Benjamin Widom
1995 Sam F. Edwards
1992 Joel Lebowitz and Giorgio Parisi
1989 Leo Kadanoff
1986 David Ruelle and Yakov G. Sinai
1983 Michael E. Fisher
1980 Rodney J. Baxter
1977 Ryogo Kubo
1975 Kenneth G. Wilson

External links

IUPAP Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) the official website of C3, the Boltzmann Award recipients list during 1975~2010

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