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Fritz London Award

FEB 01, 1964
Physics Today

The ninth International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, held under the auspices of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, will take place at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, from August 31 to September 4, 1964. A feature of the meeting will be the presentation of the fourth Fritz London Award for distinguished research in low‐temperature physics. The award is presented as a memorial to the late Fritz London, who died in 1954 while professor of physics at Duke University. It consists of an honorarium of $1000, a certificate of commendation, and a contribution toward the traveling expenses to the Conference of the recipient. Previous award winners have been Nicholas Kurti of the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, England, Lev Davidovitch Landau of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and John Bardeen of the University of Illinois.

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