London Prize to be Presented in Japan

Russell J. Donnelly, Allen M. Goldman, and Walter N. Hardy will receive the Fritz London Prize in Low Temperature Physics this August in Hiroshima. The prize is awarded every three years at the International Conference on Low Temperature Physics.

Donnelly, a professor of physics at the University of Oregon in Eugene, is being recognized for his “contribution to low-temperature fluid dynamics, in particular for his work on superfluid turbulence and for his use of critical helium gas in the study of thermal convection at record high Rayleigh numbers.”

Goldman is being honored for his “contributions to the physics of superconductors, particularly the discovery of the gapless collective modes, and for his inventive work on superconductor-insulator transitions in ultrathin films.” He is an Institute of Technology Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Hardy is being acknowledged for his “contributions in atomic and solid hydrogens and for the elucidation of the d-wave pairing state of the high-T _c superconductor YBCO [yttrium barium copper oxide].” He is a professor of physics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The cash award of $21 000 will be divided equally among the three winners.