| Year | Recipient | Citation |
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| 2025 |
Ady Stern |
For original and influential theoretical work on the quantum Hall effect, quantum statistics of emerging quasi-particles, topological order and decoherence in condensed matter systems at low temperatures.[1] |
| 2020 | Jukka Pekola |
For fundamental achievements in quantum thermodynamics, metrology and cryogenics based on nanoscale electronic devices.[1] |
| 2017 | Louis Taillefer [fr] |
For pioneering transport measurements at high magnetic fields and low temperature in heavy-fermion and cuprate superconductors.[1] |
| 2014 | Peter Wölfle [de] |
For fundamental contributions to the theory of quantum transport processes in superfluid 3He, heavy fermion superconductors and disordered metals.[1] |
| 2011 | Sergey V. Iordanski |
"For their calculations and predictions of the fundamental forces acting on quantised vortices in superfluids, superconductors and other ordered systems: The Iordanskii force and the Kopnin force"[9] |
| Nikolai B. Kopnin |
| 2008 | Yasunobu Nakamura |
"For their pioneering demonstration of quantum coherent behaviour in a macroscopic object and for their subsequent explorations of quantum coherent physics in a series of novel superconducting devices." |
| Jaw-Shen Tsai |
| 2004 | Grigory Volovik |
"for his pioneering research on the effects of symmetry in superfluids and superconductors and the extension of these ideas to quantum field theory, cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics."[10] |
| 2001 | Giorgio Frossati [de] |
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| 1998 | George R. Pickett |
In recognition of their outstanding contributions to the field of low temperature physics.[11] |
| Anthony M. Guénault |
| 1995 | Alexander F. Andreev |
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| 1992 | Olivier Avenel |
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| Eric Varoquaux |
| 1989 | Richard A. Webb |
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| 1986 | Yuri V. Sharvin [ru] |
in recognition of his outstanding experimental contributions to our understanding of the low temperature properties of metals.[12] |
| 1983 | David Olaf Edwards |
for his outstanding research on liquid and solid helium and their surfaces.[13] |
| 1981 | Anthony James Leggett |
for his outstanding contribution to the theory of superfluid He3.[14] |
| 1976 | David M. Lee |
for their discovery in 1972 of the new low temperature phases of liquid helium-3.[15][16] |
| Douglas D. Osheroff |
| Robert C. Richardson |
| 1973 | Peter Kapitza |
for distinguished work in the field of low-temperature physics.[17][18] |
| 1970 | Walther Meissner |
for his work in many areas of low temperature physics and technology and, in particular, in the field of superconductivity.[19] |
| 1968 | Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn |
in recognition of distinguished work in superconductivity and the properties of liquid helium.[20] |
| 1965 | John Charles Wheatley |
in recognition of his outstanding work on the properties of liquid helium-3 at very low temperatures.[21] |
| 1963 | Henry Edgar Hall |
for their work on liquid helium II[22] |
| William Frank Vinen |
| 1961 | Ilya Lifshitz |
for his many contributions to the understanding of the structure of the Fermi surface in metals and for his work on liquid helium.[23] |
| 1959 | Heinz London |
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