Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize

To recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics. The prize consists of $10,000 and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient or recipients. It will be awarded annually.

Establishment & Support

The prize was endowed in 1952 by AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies) as a means of recognizing outstanding scientific work. It is named in memory of Oliver E. Buckley, an influential president of Bell Labs.

Rules & Eligibility

Each prize shall be awarded for a most important contribution to the advancement of knowledge in condensed matter physics. The prize shall ordinarily be awarded to one person but may be shared when all the recipients have contributed to the same accomplishments. Nominations are active for three years.

Nomination & Selection Process

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2009 Selection Committee: Gregory S. Boebinger, Kathy Levin, Mildred Dresselhaus, David Awschalom, Leo Radzihovsky

2009 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Recipient(s):
Jagadeesh Moodera
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Tedrow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Meservey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Terunobu Miyazaki
Tohoku University

Past Recipients:

2008:	Mildred Dresselhaus
2007:	Allan H. MacDonald James P. Eisenstein Steven M. Girvin
2006:	Noel A. Clark Robert Meyer
2005:	David Awschalom Gabriel Aeppli Myriam Sarachik
2004:	David Nelson Tom Lubensky
2003:	Boris Altshuler
2002:	Jainendra Jain Nicholas Read Robert Willett
2001:	Alan Harold Luther Victor John Emery
2000:	Gerald J. Dolan Marc Aaron Kastner Theodore Alan Fulton
1999:	Sidney Robert Nagel
1998:	Chang C. Tsuei Dale J. Van Harlingen Donald M. Ginsberg John Robert Kirtley
1997:	James S. Langer
1996:	Charles Pence Slichter
1995:	Rolf Landauer
1994:	Aron Pinczuk
1993:	F. Duncan M. Haldane
1992:	Richard A. Webb
1991:	Patrick A. Lee
1990:	David Edwards
1989:	Hellmut Fritzsche
1988:	Frank F. Fang, Alan B. Fowler, and Phillip J. Stiles
1987:	Robert J. Birgeneau
1986:	Robert B. Laughlin
1985:	Robert O. Pohl
1984:	D. C. Tsui, H. L. Stormer, and A. C. Gossard
1983:	Alan J. Heeger
1982:	Bertrand I. Halperin
1981:	David M. Lee, Robert C. Richardson and Douglas D. Osheroff
1980:	Dean E. Eastman and William E. Spicer
1979:	Marvin L. Cohen
1978:	George D. Watkins
1977:	Leo P. Kadanoff
1976:	George Feher
1975:	Albert W. Overhauser
1974:	Michael Tinkham
1973:	Gen Shirane
1972:	James C. Phillips
1971:	Erwin Hahn
1970:	T. H. Geballe and B. T. Matthias
1969:	J. J. Hopfield and D. G. Thomas
1968:	J. Robert Schrieffer
1967:	Harry G. Drickamer
1966:	Theodore H. Maiman
1965:	Ivar Giaever
1964:	Philip W. Anderson
1963:	William M. Fairbank
1962:	B. N. Brockhouse
1961:	Walter Kohn
1960:	Benjamin Lax
1959:	Conyers Herring
1958:	Nicolaas Bloembergen
1957:	Charles Kittel
1956:	Clifford G. Shull
1955:	LeRoy Apker
1954:	John Bardeen
1953:	William Shockley